Excerpt from Fifty Years of Disestablishment: A Sketch

It has been long in the minds of many of us, who have inherited the results of the labours through which our Church rose into new and fair proportions after the shattering blow of the Disestablishment, that there should be some record of the men and the methods by which this great reconstruction was achieved. Such a book, we have felt, must be written while the memory of these things was still fresh, and it must be a human document, and not a dry statement of administrative details. At length, before the critical years have quite passed away, the Church has been happy in the discovery of a chronicler who does not lack the needful gifts.

To the venerable and loved Bishop of Clogher is due the immediate impulse which has issued in this book.

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