English: Identifier: priestspeoplein00mcca

Title: Priests and people in Ireland Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: McCarthy, Michael J. F. (Michael John Fitzgerald) Subjects: Publisher: Dublin, Hodges Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Text Appearing Before Image: e ocean compared with the colossal sumwhich the poor Irish Catholics expend yearly duringlife ; and, above all, on their deathbeds, upon the endow-ment of their priests, monks, and nuns, and on theadornment of their churches. George Moores philan-thropic expenditure was the overflow of his well-earnedwealth. But the millions of our Irish church-money,priest-money, monk-money, nun-money, and pope-money are extracted from a lean peasantry, whosewithers are almost wrung, and who are wincing likegalled jades under the overpowering weight of theirpriestly riders; while they race, under whip and spur,for a goal beyond which they hope their spirits will findrest, when the poor worn bodies which now encase themare crumbling into dust. And, unlike George Moores money, those Irish mil-lions are literally and verily subscribed and collectedas an insurance against fire—fire eternal and fire sempi-ternal. And, were Magee alive to-day, and were heto turn his thoughts westward from Bishopthorpe to

Text Appearing After Image: Clom.ikfk Collegk, Dublin A spacious palace for the younj; priests. To the Superior of Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, ^loo (p. 129).

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