Early Years and Maynooth
Born near Charleville in County Cork, Ireland, Mannix was the son of a tenant farmer, Timothy Mannix, and his wife Ellen, née Cagney. He was educated at Congregation of Christian Brothers schools and at St Patrick's College, Maynooth seminary, where he was ordained as a priest in 1890.
Mannix was president of St Patrick's College, Maynooth, the Irish national seminary, from 13 October 1903 to 10 August 1912 when he was succeeded by the Rt Reverend John F. Hogan. During his presidency he was widely criticised for welcoming King Edward VII on a visit to Maynooth (it was alleged that the reception room was hung with the king's racing colours). Contrasts were drawn between this welcome for the notoriously adulterous king and the Catholic bishops' role in supporting the deposition of Charles Stewart Parnell as Irish nationalist leader because of his affair with Katherine O'Shea.
Mannix was also heavily involved in the controversy surrounding the dismissal of Fr Michael O'Hickey as Professor of Irish after O'Hickey publicly attacked those members of the Senate of the National University of Ireland who opposed making Irish a compulsory subject for matriculation and insinuated that the senators (who included several bishops) had sinned grievously by so doing and resembled those MPs who were bribed to pass the Act of Union.
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