THE MASS ROCKS UNDER THE PENAL LAWS IN IRELAND
A short pictorial documentary of the Mass Rocks.
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OLIVER PLUNKETT: CANONISED 12th OCTOBER 1975; ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH
OLIVER PLUNKETT ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH CANONISED 12th OCTOBER 1975 - FEAST DAY 1st JULY Oliver Plunkett was born in 1625. Descended from James Plunkett, 8th Baron Killeen, he was related to the Earls of Roscommon, Fingal, Lords Louth and Dunsany. By 1605, the Plantations had been established in Ireland by the English Crown as a means to subdue the native Catholic Irish by populating the counties with protestant Lowland Scots and Northern English - Loyalists to the (Protestant) Crown. From the time of Elizabeth I, under the Penal Laws, Catholics had been barred from education or holding public office, ensuring that the Irish Privy Council and the Lords Justice who composed the benches hearing and applying the laws of Ireland would always be Anglicans. Oliver Plunkett’s education was initially entrusted to his cousin, Patrick Plunkett, Abbot of St Mary’s Dublin. Afterwards, because of the dearth of educational opportunities in Ireland for Catholics, he journeyed to Rome to study. In 1652, ...
Were You at the Rock? The Rock Masses of Ireland
Liam O Maonlai. The Swell Season sing the love song An raibh tu ag an gCarraig” (Were you at the Rock) -with explanation by Laim O Maonlai of the meaning of the song.
Irish Code song to signal whether it was safe to attend Mass
Sissel and the Chieftains sing a love song of the 17th century which was used as a code to let the local Catholic Irish know whether or not it was safe to attend the Mass, (which was illegal and punished by execution), and which were held in fields or houses in secrecy.