Read New Post 'On Active Service' on the MU Library Treasures Blog

Monday, August 20, 2018 - 12:30

Read our latest blog post 'On Active Service’: Maynooth College, chaplains & the anti-conscription crisis' by By Professor Marian Lyons (Department of History, Maynooth University) and Barbara McCormack (Special Collections Librarian, Maynooth University Library).
 
'While Europe was in the throes of the Great War and Ireland made a bold strike for independence, the national seminary at Maynooth experienced a profound transformative period. On Easter Monday 1916, although the college president, J.F. Hogan, blessed seventeen Volunteers from the town of Maynooth as they set out to join the insurrection in Dublin, he stated categorically that he opposed their action. During Easter week there was an air of excitement in the college....'

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