John Mac Hale
John MacHale (Irish: Seán Mac Héil; 6 March 1791 in Tubbernavine, Co. Mayo, Ireland – 7 November 1881 in Tuam, Co. Galway, Ireland) was the Irish Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, and Irish Nationalist.
He laboured and wrote to secure Catholic Emancipation, legislative independence, justice for tenants and the poor, and vigorously assailed the proselytizers and the anti-Catholic anti-national system of public education. He preached regularly to his flock in Irish.
Read more about John Mac Hale: Childhood, Ordination, Emancipation Campaign, 1820s, Archbishop of Tuam, Repeal of The Union Campaign, 1830s, The Famine of 1845-49, Political Matters, Vatican Council 1869, Use of Irish Gaelic, Memorials, Works
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