The Celtic Church in Ireland: The Story of Ireland and Irish Christianity from Before the Time of Patrick (Classic Reprint)

His PREFACE It is beyond question that even among Irishmen much ignorance prevails respecting the history of I reland. It is nothing short of scandalous that the study of I rish history has been excluded from the programme of the National Schools of the country, with the inevitable result that the larger proportion of our young people grow up knowing little or nothing of the formative influences and chequered experiences through which I reland has passed, and how she has come to be what she is to-day. The primary object of the author in giving the following pages to the public is to awaken or stimulate a keener interest in this subject in the circles to which his volume may have access. Partly for this purpose, but also because ecclesiastical history is inseparable from civil, he has combined a picture of the social and civil state of I reland with the story of the Celtic Church. The work is thus a rapid sketch of I rish affairs generally, with special attention to the ecclesiastical department, through a period of much more than a thousand years.
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