Bishop O’Dwyer of Limerick: speech at Limerick, September 14th, 1916

A pamphlet reporting a speech made by the Most Rev. Edward Thomas O’Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick. The speech provides his opinion on current political events. The pamphlet is titled ‘No.3’ in a series.

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1917
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6
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8 pp; Printed
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A pamphlet reporting a speech made by the Most Rev. Edward Thomas O’Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick. The speech provides his opinion on current political events. The pamphlet is titled ‘No.3’ in a series.
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Irish Capuchin Archives
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Irish Capuchin Archives > Capuchin Papers relating to the Irish Revolution > Pamphlets, Cartoons and Publicity Material > 1916 Rising and War of Independence

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Pamphlet No. 3 Bishop O'Dwyer OF LIMERICK. SPEECH AT LIMERICK September 14th, 1916. P. Gallagher, 12 Nicholas Street, Limerick.

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SPEECH Made by HIS LORDSHIP The Most Rev. Dr. O'DWYER on the occasion of the Conferring of the Freedom of the City of Limerick on him, ON SEPTEMBER 14th, 1916. HIS Lordship, who was enthusiastically cheered on rising to reply to the address presented to him by the Limerick Corporation, said:— Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, I thank you very heartily for the great honour conferred upon me, but I confess that I feel somewhat strange in these surroundings of public favour. Popularity is a novel experience for me, and I must be on my guard against its fascination, not indeed that I ever attached much importance to it, or sought it. We all know the fickleness of the popularis aura, and the man that relies upon it will probably be marooned in the end. Some of you will remember the early years of my episcopate, when the correct thing politically was to treat me as the enemy of my country, because I had the audacity to think and to say that the methods of the political agitation were amenable to God's laws. I was heartily in sympathy with the farmers in their movement to emancipate themselves from the yoke of an intolerable landlordism, but I condemned as immoral the methods of the Plan of Campaign and boycotting as intrinsically unjust and the latter as essentially un-Christian; and for that, and that alone, an attempt was made to hound me down and silence me. A meeting was held here in my own city, under the shadow of my own cathedral,

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