Alfred O’Rabilly II: Controversialist
Taoiseach,

Jack

Lynch;

Dr

Albert

MacConnell,

provost

T.C.D., 20d professors and staff-members of U.C.D.
following day the Requiem

On

of

the

Mass was celebrated by Fr O'Dris-

coll, with Archbishop McQuaid presiding. De Valera was again
in attendance and a strong representation from U.C.C.

In his will Alfred had expresscd a wish that his body be laid
to rest ‘with the Holy Ghost Fathers in their cemetery at Kimmage’. His wish was honoured. The graveside service was conducted

by Alfred’s close friend,

Fr Michael

McCarthy,

with a

large gathering of Holy Ghost Fathers and, once agzin, de Valera
in attendance.
The Holy Ghost Fathers were t0 be as generous and kind to
Alfred in death as they were to him during his years in reticement, making him an honorary member of their institute. The

inscription on his small, cross-shaped headstone, identical to all
the others in the cemetery, reads:

Msgr. Alfred O’Rahilly, C.5.5p.
died 2nd August 1969
aged B85 yrs.%

31. The above is taken from Richard Sherry, Haly Cross College, Clonliffe,
1859-1959 (Dublin 1962);, Denis Gwynn, ‘Monsignor Alfred O'Rahilly
(1884-1969), Studies, winter 1969; D. H. Manly, “The Fahey theotles’, ‘Sound
history?", ‘Fr Fahey and Lrish Catholicism’, Sallintriilick Review, no. 28 (1990);
Cork Examiner 4, 6 August 1969; Irish Independent 25 Janvary

1954, 4, 6,

August 1969; Irish Times 4 August 1969; Kerryman 9 August 1969 Standard
7 May 1943, 4 May, 22 June 1946, 6, 13 December 1957, 12, 26 April 1963;
Dublin Archdiocesan Archives: Alfred O'Rahilly flle; R.T.6. Written Archive:
Alfred O’Rahilly file; Papers of Comelius Murphy: Alfred O'Rahilly fite; diaries
of Alfred O'Rahilly: 8 April - | May 1954; 24 May -7 July 1954, 11 uly- 12
Septenber 1954, 13 September — 26 October 1954, 27 December 1954 - 28 Feb- 25 December 1955;
ruacy 1955, 1 March -9 November 1955, 13 November
interviews with John Evans, Mgr G. Thomas Fehily, Peter Hogan, Fr Sein
Hughes, $.J., Mrs Deirdre Hurnphreys (née Flanagan), Mother M. Jordana, O.P.,
R, D, O'C. Lysaght, Fr Michael McCarthy, C.5.Sp., Comelius Murphy, Rev. Dt
Michael O"Carrall, C..S.5p., John ], O'Meara, Pédraig G Snodaigh, Patrick Joseph
Quinn, Fr Patrick Tuohy; papers and writings of Alfred O'Rahilly and the
sources already cited.
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On

12 November

1901 Alfred entercd the Jesuit novitiate at

Tullabeg with a view to becoming a priest in the Society of
Jesus. When on 18 December 1955 he was ordained in the
chapel in Blackrock College his life had all-too-soon come full
circle.! In the meantime he had married and raised a daughter
and son. For forty years he had given unmatched service to
U.C.C. as assistant lecturer, professor, registrar and president
successively. He was one of the most influential persons in the
public life of Ireland for a period spanning almost twa generations, As a practical social reformer, he had few peers. He had
won an international reputation as a scholar in a number of
disciplines.
0

Notwithstanding these achievements, those who

were close

Alfred regarded him as first and foremost an outstanding

Catholic apologist. It was a role which he filled with considerable enthusiasm in his daily life as well as in lecturiog and

writing. Fr Donal O'Sullivan, §.)., who gave the annual retreat

at U.C.C. at the beginning of the academic year in 1945, wrote
to Fr John R. McMahon,

$J., his provincial, on t7 November:

I thoroughly enjoyed the retreat, though it was at the
same time a big strain and the confessions were missionheavy. O’Rahilly himself and a fair number of the professors attended - the presence of the former does not
tend to calin preaching! - and the students packed the
chapel. 1 saw a great deal of Alfred and he was kindness
itsel€ to me and at various professoriai social gatherings was
almost embarrassing in his eagerness to break 1 lance for the
Society. He has done a tremendous amount in his few years
of office, even though he has often been fortiter in modo
as well as in re. There is really a wonderful Catholic spirit
in the college and the personal example of O’Rahilly is
just stupendous. The younger students especially appreciate it.

1. In his diary he adverted to this on a number of occasions. On Palm Sunday,
11 April 1954, he wrote: ‘Once more [ am witnessing the Holy Week liturgy in
Blackrock College chapel, where these ceremonies first made such an impression on me a5 a schoalbay. Tt seems but yesterday. All the intervening years
seem to me almost nareal, like the passing vislons of a cinematograph. A lirtle
while ago [ was a schoolboy; now suddenly I flad myself to be 2n okd man.’
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Alfred never concealed his Catholicism nor his strong
religious convictions no matter what the surroundings. Douglas
Hyde wrote in the Catbolic Herald of & August 1948:
In London last week I met Professor O'Rahilly, of Cork,

and we went for a meal together in a Fleet Strect restaurant.
The raopm was crowded, but in five minutes there was to all

intents and purposes only one man there — the professor
~ for his personality is so terrific that, although the most
modest of men, he simply dominated the scene.
He told me with pride of the things they are doing in
Cork [the course in workers’ education at U.C.C.] and was

particularly proud of the fact that the men they turn out do
not disappear into ivory towers or soft jobs, but take their
learning, culture and social teaching with them back to the

working-class circles from which they come.
He seemed to me to be one of the most practical and yet
most holy people I have met. And I will confess to having
got rather a kick out of seeing the looks of blank astonishment and incomprehension on hard-boiled Fleet Street
faces when, having finished lunch, he crossed himself and

said grace before departing.

Alfred’s passionate attachment to his faith was rooted in his
family background, his e2rly education and membership of the
Society of Jesus during his formative years. Pechaps because he
possessed an acute awareness of the inadequacy of human
knowledge, science and theology, like Louis Pasteur, he had the
simple faith of a Breton peasant. This he sustained by a life-long
commitment to prayer. Throughout his life as a layman he
attended Mass and recited the Rosary daily.
Alfred’s readiness to do battle for the Catholic Church arose
in part from his desire to compensate for not perscvering with
his vocation in his eacly years. In his diary for 19 April 1954 he
wrote: ‘In spite of my many faults, I have always stood up for
Christ and publicly defended religion. Thus I have made some
reparation for my own great tepidity and unfaithfulness.” And
on 20 January 1955 he reflected on his departure from the
Jesuits: ‘1 was full of spiritual pride and I was unfaithful to grace.
The only consolation I have is that, having been found unwor-

thy to be an officer in Christ’s army, I think I have honestly
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striven to be a good private.’ This was also implicitly recognised
by Fr Michael O’Grady, 8]., the provincial, in the dimissorial

letter which he provided for Alfred prior to his ordination.*
By virtue of his temperament and personality, Alfred was
attracted to controversy. He was sclf-opinionated and extraordinarily vain. Nothing gave him maore pleasure than an intellectual
joust with a person regarded as an expert on some subject or
other. For religious controversy he was well-equipped. He
possessed a fine mind, was widely read and had extensive and

varied experience. Although he gave no quarter in exchanges, he
endeavoured not to show any personal animus to his adversaties.
Hurts and insults were hoth forgotten as well as forgiven by him.*
Alfred foltowed the deliberations of the Second Vatican Council

(1962-5) with intense interest. He stated that it dealt with a

number of issues which had concerned him for many years. Not
surprisingly in view of his independent character, he applauded
the council’s move to correct the juridical over-emphasis on
Church discipline which resulted from the Reformation. He
welcomed the new vision of the Church as the people of God and
its consequent upgrading of the status of lay people within the
Church. In particular he was very pleased with the introduction
of the vernacular into the liturgy and thereby the restoration of
the ideal of corporate worship. He rejoiced at the council’s
enthusiastic endorsement of ecumenism and the need to respect
truths and convictions cherished in other religions and other
Christian denominations. But, with regard to ecamenism and the
other issues opened up for vigorous debate, he frequently quoted
St Augustine: ‘In essentials, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in
all things, charity.’

Alfred was more complex and complicated than most
people. He tended to beguile his friends and to enrage his
adversaries. But he mellowed as he grew older. Dr Kathleen

2. Fr 0'Grady admired Alfred grearly. In January 1955 in convecsation and by
letter he informed him that the Society regarded him as 2 missionarius excurrens (an external missionary). He assured him thar members of the Irish province
were prond of his achievements and felt a grear affection for him (sce p. 136},
In a reference 1o Alfred's farthcoming ordination, he regretted that the Society
had not the privilege ‘t have done that crownlng” to a ‘life so marked with the
seal of divine approval’
3. See J. A. Ganghan, Alfred O Rabilly I: Academic, 193-4; Alfred O'Rabilly
I, Public Figure, 384
4. For 2 psychological profite of Alfred, see Appendix &,
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O’Flaherty, his colleague for many years when he strode the
scene at U.C.C. like a colossus,* published an appreciation of
him

in the

Cork

University

Record,

summer

1955,

and

the

University Review, spring 1955. After mentioning his many
achievements in the academic and non-academic worlds, she

referred to his capacity for work and for extracting it out of
others, his stimulating companionship, and his phenomenal
energy, manifested in his quick gestures and rapid flow of talk.

Dynamism, she recalled, was his most outstanding characteristic
and she continued: ‘Those who know him are well acquainted
with it; it is the origin of the many emotions to which he gave
ris¢ in those with whom he came in contact, for it was impos-

sible to regard him

with

indifference.

It is a source of his

brilliance as a polemicist and of the intellectual energy which he

continually expended . . . His very manner of walking revealed
this trait of his character: it was necessary to run in order to
keep up with him . . . His quick glance took in everything . . .
When he retired, U.C.C. lost not only an exceptional president
but an outstanding personality.”
Fr Michael McCarthy who lived in close contact with Alfred

from 1954 to 1969 broadcast an appreciation of his fricnd from
Radio Fireann in August 1969. He described him as
magnanimous and forgiving and as possessing a subtle,

mischievous but never huriful humour. In his personal dealings,
McCarthy commented, Alfred’s generosity and munificence
were on the grand scale and his kindness to people about him
constant. His pension he spent on books and on charity to the
poor.

When

McCarthy

he died

his estate amounted

conciuded that his was

to a mere

£1,100.

‘a kindly heart concealed

under a rugged and unpretentious exterior’.

Denis Gwyon compared Alfred in death to a Roman emperor

lying in state. Alfred’s

life reminds

one of the advice

of the

Greek poet, Hesiod (7. ¢. 800 B.C.): ‘In the morning of life,
work; in the mid-day, give counsel; in the evening, pray.’s

5. Niall Tlerney, son of Michael Tierney, recalled that when as 2 small boy he
asked Alfred wha he was the latter replied: ‘I am the Kaiser of Cork!’
6. The ahove is taken from Kathlcen O'Flaherty, ‘Obituary: Right Reverend
Dr Alired O'Rahilly’, Cork University Record, 1970; diary of Alfred O’Rahilly:
27 December 1954 - 28 Febrnary 1955; Dublin Archdiocesan Archives: Alfred
O'Rahilly file; interviews with Fr Michael McCarthy, C.5.5p., and Rev. Dr
Michael O'Carroll, C.8.5p.; papers and writings of Alfred O'Rahilly and the
sources already cited.
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APPENDIX

1

RADIO TALK BY ALFRED O'RAHILLY
ON THERESE NEUMANN!

There is in Bavaria, near the frontier of Czechoslovakia, 2
village of less than a thousand inhabitants, called Konnersreuth,

about five miles from the nearest railway stadon. This obscure
place has achieved world-wide fame and has been visited by
thousands of pilgrims, for it is the home of Thérése Neumann,
the daughter of the village tailor, born in 1898 as the cldest of
ten children, She is an ordinary peasant woman who finished
her schooling at the age of sixteen and then was for four years
a servant maid. How curious that the eyes of the world should
be drawn to such 2 person! The reason is that since 1926 she has
had the stigmata - wounds on the hands, feet and left side
which never suppurate but bleed periodically on Fridays,
especially during Lent; she also sheds tears of blood. Thus in a
most poignant way she recalls men’s minds to the Passion of
Our Lord. In 2 sermon preached on 8 Navember 1927 the late
Cardinal Faulhaber said: ‘Today 2 great message of grace has
come out of Konnersreuth: Return to devotion to Christ's
Passion.’
There is already an enormous literature on the subject. As [
happen to have read extensively in it, I have been asked to speak
on it, especially in connection with a recent book, The case of
Thérése Newmann. The author, Miss Hilda C. Graef, writes from
Oxford. The book is printed in London, has the imprimatur of
the archbishop of Birmingham, and was published in 1950 by
the Mercier Press, Cork.

The publisher’s blurb states that the

work is the “first critical examination 1o appear in the English

language’. In my view, however, it is an extremely hostile and

one-sided production and thercfore calls for some critical com-

ments. The author appears to have paid a visit to Konnersreuth
but gives no observations of her own. For most of her descriptions she is dependent on the large work of Josef Teodorowicz,
archbishop of Lemberg, of which an American translation was
published by Herder in 1940: Mystical phenomena in the life of
Thérdse Newmann.

She uses a highly critical symposium published in the Erudes
Carmélitaines in 1936 and especially the work of a Polish

1. Broadcast from Radio Eireann on 23 Aptil 1951. The typescript is in the

Written Archive of Radio Telefis fireann.

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physician, Dr Boleslas de Poray Madeyski: Le cas de la vistonnaire stigmatisée Thérdse Neumann de Konnersreuth (Paris
1940). It is, however, disingenuous to refer to this medical
writer as ‘the medical expert of the Sacred Congregation of
Rites’, as he did not write in this capacity and his book is filled
with 2 technical and debatable concept of hysteria. Miss Gracf
simply accepts his conclusions without reproducing his
arguments. She has missed a much bertter critical work published
in French by a Polish Jesuit, Paul Siwek, now a professor in
Fordham: Une stigmatisée de nos fours (Paris 1950). As to most
of the literature favourable to Thérése Neumann, Miss Graef is

unaware of it or at least fails to quote it.

The author’s object is to prove that the extraordinary
phenomenz
exhibited by Thérése Neumann
- stigmata,
visions, perpetual fast — have 2 purely natural explanation.
Even If she were dealing with a canonised saint, she would be
prefectly entitled to do this; Catholics as such are not obliged
to regard these phenomena as miraculous. Such a discussion
is of great scientific interest but exceedingly difficult in the light
of modern psychical rescarch. To be satisfactory the investigation would require a far greater technical apparatus than Miss
Graef attempts. But the query I wish to put is this: Is the issue,
which can never be decided categorically, of such great
religions importance? Even among Catholics in Germany there
has been a great difference of opinion; and Miss Graef relies
on Fr Waldmann, one of the most vehement opponents of Konnersreuth. Among Catholic scientists and theologians such a dispute is quite intelligible. But does it really affect the ordinary
people? Do they consciously raise the question whether God
is acting directly or through obscure secondary causes? From
my own knowledge of the sturdy Bavarian Catholic rural
people, 1 find it hard to believe that they are obsessed with
delusions about miracles. They take the wonderful phenomena
as they find them and they thank God for them. In my opinion
they are right. As against Miss Graef I hold that a description
— still more a sight - of what is happening is of far greater
importance than an inconclusive investigation as to whether
they are a rather unique manifestation of obscure psychophysical causation. Here, for example, is a quotation from a
Jewish physician, who visited Konnersreuth, Dr Wolfgang von
Weisl:

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Never could 1 believe what happens here, had 1 not seen

it with my own cyes: a peasant girl witnesses the Passion of

Christ. So strong and fervent is her vision that blood flows

in long streams from her eyes down her face; blood from

the wounds of her heart and her head crimsons her gown
and her head cloth. And as to her eyes — never have I seen
such eyes in a hysteric or insane person . . . She weeps

bloody tears. In her extended hands of a dull white-like
ivory, there shine forth two red marks: the marks of the

nails in the hands of the Redeemer.

Presumably this non-Christian doctor does not believe in 2
miracle; yet he was profoundly affected by this living reproduc-

tion of the Passion of Christ.
[ myself would much prefer to give my hearers further such
descriptions, to try to show them why the thousands who have

visited Konnersreuth were so deeply affected. But I must perforce follow Miss Graef in her pursuit of natural causes.
In spite of her ambition

to be 2 missionary

sister, Thérése

Neumann had to start earning her living as a servant in 1914;
and,

owing

to the

absence

of the

men

at the war,

her work

was particularly hard. On the morning of 10 March 1918 a
fire broke out in the house where she was employed. For two
hours she stood on 2 chair, handing up buckets of water, then

she fell. This, aggravated by a further fall 2 month later when
she was carrying a sack of potatoes, was the beginning of a
lang period of suffering and iilness, during which she lost her
sight and became partly paralysed. In 1923 her sight was

restored, and in 1925 she was cured of a wound in her foot,
of what was alleged to be an organic lesion of the vertebrae,
of appendicitis and of pneumonia, Thérése maintained that she
was cured miraculously by St Thérése after a vision. Dr
Madeyski, whom of course Miss Graef follows, holds that these
disabilities were due to hysteria initiated by traumatic shock.
Let us avoid this much-abused word ‘hysteria' and say that
these illnesses were

psychogenetic,

that is, due in some

way

to the reaction of the mind (not necessarily conscious) on the
body. There is much to be said for this contention, for many
paralle] cases of such symptoms are recorded. Certainly the
Medical Burean at Lourdes would not accept these cures as
necessarily miraculons. What follows? Nothing whatever either

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to the disparagement of Thérése or to the invalidation of her

subsequent experiences.
Let us now turn to Thérése’s stigmata, the impression of five
‘wounds recalling those of Christ. The first recorded case is that
of St Francis in 1224; since then there have been literally hundreds of instances. Rationalist historians, fearful of admitting a
miracle, have been reluctant to admit the genuinencss of the
phenomenon. Renan suggesied that Br Elias manipulated the
corpse of 8t Francis; the Cambridge historian Coulton suggested
that the saint used a 'rusty nail'! When the German pathologist
in 1874 was told of the case of the Belgian gitl Louise Latean,
he declared: “Wunder oder Betrug — miracle or fraud.’ And of
course he opted for fraud. Such scepticism is nowadays quite
untenable. The stigmata of Thérése Neumann have been
investigated and described by numerous medical men; they
have been photographed. Says Fr Siwek, an exigent critic (p.
44): ‘I do not believe that the reality of the phenomena of
Konnersreuth can be seriously doubted.” Miss Graef, who would
be glad to be rid of Inconvenient facts, reproduces from Dr
Madeyski an account of 2 certain Dr Martini who, because he did
not himself witness the start of the bleeding from the wounds,
suggested the possibility of a pious fraud; she even reproduces
(p. 64) an insinuation from Waldmann that Thérése’s mother
manipulated the bleeding. Such base and unfounded charges are
indefensible. There is the moral case against deceit; Thérase is
a daily communicant, neither the Neumann household nor the
villagers have derived any profit from the visitors, the parish
priest, Fr Naber, is a watchful witness. But above all there have
been innumerable competent observers. Says Fr Siwek again {p.
90):
The spontanecous beginning of the blood-flow has been

well observed by 2 number

of doctors, of whom

several

used a magnifying glass. The quantity of blood is more than
could be produced artifically without leaving notable scars
.. . There is no tendency to the production of pus.

It is unnecessary for me to quote numerous medical men,
some of them non-Catholics, who have authenticated Thérése’s

stigmata and their periodical bleeding. There can be no question
of fraud. But are they a2 miracle? Or to express it more accur-

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ately: [s it necessary that God should intervene miraculously to
produce stigmata? In this matter the Church shows a prudent

reserve, Even in the decree approving the heroic virtues of St
Gemma

Galgani in 1932 it is stated that no decision is given

‘concerning the supernatural character of the charismata of the
servant of God’. It is true that no authentic case of natural
stigmata has yet been adduced. A case described by Dr Lechler
is very doubtful; and Miss Graef was ill-advised in adding an
appendix on an alleged case reported in German newspapers.
Blisters have been produced

by hypnatic

suggestion, but not

bloody wounds and tears. And yet, given the phenomena of
psychical research which we must nowadays admit, it would be
rash to assert thar stigmata must be purely supernatural in
origin. If, however, there be a natural cause, we can exclude
two extremes. (1) Auto-suggestion in the sense of will or conscious desire. Many stigmatics have been reluctant recipients;
and many great devotees of the Passion have lacked stigmata. (2)
Any purely physiological cause. For the stigmata are not just
‘wounds, they have a reference to Christ’s wounds, they embody
an idea, they convey a message. S0 most Catholic writers today
leave it an open question whether God uses some factor in the
psychophysical constitution in the production of stigmata.
In

this

question

Miss

Graef

appears

to me

to

make

two

mistakes. She assumes (p. 9) that ‘a number of cases are
explicable by purely natural causes’, while others are purely
supernatural. But the same phenomenon cannot be explained
naturally in one case and miraculously in another. As a result of
this false dichotomy, she adopts the possession of conspicuous
virtue as the criterion of the supernatural origin of stigmata in

any given case. This is bad theology; for whatever be the
explanation of stigmata, they are gratuitous favours which do
not presuppose high sanctity in the receiver. Thérése Neumann

herself was much more accurate when she said: “These gifts are
not for me, they are for others; I could be damned with them

if I did not look to myself’ (Teodorowicz, p. 274). Let me cite

Fr Siwek once more, as he is a critic whose conclusions largely
coincide with those of Miss Graef. Here is how his book ends

(P. 168):

‘We have laid aside not only the problem of the personal
sanctity of Thérése Neumann but also that of her mystical

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life. Between personal holiness and mystical life on the one

hand, and on the other hand the phenomena we have discussed in this book, there exists no necessary or intrinsic
relation.

Elsewhere he says (p. 85): ‘Personal piety, having no intimate
relation with stigmata, cannot serve as a criterion for deciding
in any given case whether the stigmata do or do not come from
God.’ It is a great pity that Miss Graef missed this point. For,
having set out to prove that the stigmata and visions of Thérdse

Neumann are purely natural phenomena, she finds it necessary
to show that Thérése lacks fundamental virtues and is full of
imperfections. This systematic denigrarion of an inoffensive living person is a grave defect of Miss Graef's book, for it involves
a lot of intimate prying, slick insinuations and some really cattish remarks. It is simply absurd for the author to claim that her

book is a ‘balanced and impartial account’, when ic is full of
irrelevant personal attacks.
Nor do I think that she has dealt fairly with the evidence. For
example, she disposes in a few lines (p. 91) of the assertion that
Thérése hears Our Lord speaking Aramaic in her visions of the
Passion. She does this by taking one obscure phrase and trying
to make out that it is really a corruption of Bavarian dialect. This
is not good enough. Why did she not take ‘Abba Shebdk lehon’
— ‘Father, forgive them’? Or the unexpected but good Aramaic

‘eshe’ for 'I thirst’ instcad of ‘sahéna’. It is useless to pretend

that Fr Wutz, consciously or unconsciously, inspired Thérése.
Fr Robert Leiber, 8]., in a published book, tells us that he

became convinced after a long discussion with Wutz. Still more
striking is the evidence of the non-Catholic Hans Bauer, professor of Semitic languages in Halle, and of the famous Jewish
orientalist, Dr Wessely of Vienna. Both of these were convinced
that Thérgse heard Aramaic, the language spoken hy Our Loxrd.
Miss Graef's summary dismissal of this extraordinary problem is
quite unjustified. Her bias has made her unfair.
I have left myself no time to deal with Thérése’s inedia, that

is, ber going without solid food since

1922 or without even

liquid food since 1926. As in the case of St Catherine of Siena,

this is simply due to her inability to eat. Thérése herscif takes a
very sensible view. She says: ‘I place no value on eating or not
eating, because after all what is of importance? Only to come to

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the Lord’ (Teodorowicz, p. 20). This alleged abstention from
food, especially in the case of a person leading an active life,
seems to contradict all we know of the laws of energy; were

there not similar recorded instances, we should flod it hardly

credible. Miss Graef, refusing to attribute canscious frand, suggests (p. 55) that Thérése helps herseif to food in a state of

somnambulism, which could hardly be done without the canni-

vance of her family. Alternatively, she suggests that this absten-

tion from nourishment

can occur naturally. Once more I find

the discussion quite unsatisfactory.
Miss Graef obviously set out to debunk her fellow-Catholic

Thérése

Neumann.

She reduces as much

as she can to hysteria,

she pictures Thérese as a pigheaded and faulty Bavarian peasant,
and she tries to evade facts which are inconvenient. Her book
may have a succes de scandale. But it is not an objective account

of ‘the case of Thérése Neumann'.

Nor, even if her theories were

true, would it show that God was not using Konnersreuth to

revive devotion to the Crucified.

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APPENDIX 2

ALFRED O’RAHILLY’S REPLY TO H. G. WELLS
IN THE STANDARD!

12
Introduction
There recently appeared in 2 weekly English paper what pur-

ported to be ‘a digest of one of the most

important

books

published in our lifetime’.
Ordinarily an Irish Catholic would not pay much attention to

this screaming commercial stunt indulged in by an imported
paper which also provides illustrated accounts of night ciubs?®
and, incongruously and illogically, a life of Qur Lord. On-this
occasion,
however,
widespread indignation was evoked
because the articles, so far from using legitimate a2rguments,
contained offensive guttersnipe references to our religion and to
our country. While 1 agree in general with the editor of the
Picture Post that a ‘reply to Wells’s articles under democracy
should not be a ban but a reasoned argument’, I feel he does not
appreciate the difficulty of dealing, not with reasoned
arguments on the other side, bur with sweeping unproved
statements expressed with exccrable taste. Speaking of a
meeting in Australia, Mr Wells says:
I had denounced the teaching of the Judaco-Christian
mythology as historical fact, in the most emphatic terms.

Not a single Christian teacher appeared to reply to that chal-

lenge (The fate of bomo sapiens (1939) 101).

Now supposing that I myself - in a popular lecture, observe,
not in a documented book - had emphatically denounced the
teaching of the Darwinian mythology as scientific fact, should
I then start proclaiming as a grievance the fact that not a single

1, The articles, constituting the reply, were Introduced under the general trle
"Mr Wells and ourseives',
2. Standard 12 January 1940.
3.1.am not concemned here with this aspect of the Picture Post.
4. The three articles refcrred to are in Picture Post (4 Nov. 1939, 46-8), Picture Post (11 Nov. 40-2), Picture Pust (9 Dec. 47-9). The book itself is The fate
of bomo sapiens (1939). Other works of Mr Wells are quoted incidentally 1o
show his background.
224

Appendix 2
teacher of biology appeared in reply to my challenge? No; { do
not

think

[ would

take

myself

quite

so seriously,

though

I

believe I know more of biology than Mr Wells does of theology.
The last conclusion Mr Wells would come to about himself is

that there are 2 great number of people who refuse to take him
seriously. My own reaction to his book was sicaply this: a bit of

vague biology, some journalistic articles on various countries, a
lot of secondhand jeering at religion and various ‘rude noises’
- to use his own expression (The fate of bomo sapiens, 158) about us Catholics. Why on earth should any educated person
bother to answer this farrago of ill-mannered sciolism? But the
editor of the Picture Post was anxious for a casus belli; so he
handed the contents of his wastepaper-basket to Mr Wells and
under big headlines published ‘H. G. Wells replies to his critics’.
And after devouring the authors of these anonymous scraps, Mr
‘Wells starts shouting challenges to Archbishop Richard Downey
and Hitaire Belloc. If this kind of thing goes on, it may, in this
advertisement-run world, lead many simple people to share Mr
Wells’s belief in his own importance, omniscience and
infallibility. [ have therefore thought it worth while to publish
a few comments on this unprovoked attack.?

The Competence of Mr Wells
When not roaring like a lion, Mr Wells displays the ability to

coo like a dove:

12m no more responsible for the facts in this book than
1 telegraph-messenger is for the cable he brings; 1 have been
simply gathering wp undisputed statements, and they
remain intact, however brilliantly I can be discredited personally (7he fate of bomo sapiens, 320).
This is quite an old coatroversizl dodge of Mr Wells.® He Is the
mouthpiece of science, the impartial collector of facts, the
unprejudiced purveyor of undisputed statements, the reporter
without bias. This smug self-laudation is really a rather obvious

5. No reply was received to an offer to publish my criricism in the pages of
the Picture Post. See pp. 53-4.
6. 'lam 2 mere reporter of vast mass of gathered knowledge and lengthened
perspectives' (H. G. Wells, Mr. Belioc objects (1926) 51).
225

Alfred O’Rabilly II: Controversialist
attempt to poison the wells especially against us Catholics. It is

bis favourite alibi. You are not hitting me, he says in effect
(Picture Post, 9 Dec., 47), you are attacking Sir James George
Frazer — thus neatly daring us to wade through rwenty fat
volumes. Now unfortunately it is a very difficult — inhuman or
almost superhuman - task to catalogue mere facts without personal equation or bias, There is a good deal of truth in George
Bernard Shaw’s dictum: “The way to get at the merits of a case
is mot to listen to the fool who imagines himself impartial, but
to get it argued with reckless bias for and against,” However
impartial Mr Wells may regard himself in his self-imposed task
as ‘messenger’, he cannot - especially in the case of an author
such as SirJ. G. Frazer - disclaim responsibility for the message
he extracts from huge specialist compitations. Here is the judgment of 2 competent critic of The golden bough:?
It is perhaps this readiness of Frazer to give up his own
theories, to swallow like Kronos his own children, that has
contributed to the fact that if his works are universally

appreciated

a5

most

valuable

collections

of

facts

his

theorles have found relatively few adherents. It is 2
psychological enigma to me why Frazer, so ready to give up

S0 many theorics that he might be styled an absolute sceptic, is so enthusiastic in defending absolute truth in one
determined direction . . . His picturesque descriptions are
often wonderful, It is clear that by such means he exerts on
the general reader the same mighty influence which always

Pproceeds

from

poetical

creation.

But

of course

poetical

beauties cannot be for ever substitutes for firm and solid
truths; and so 1 fear that many of Frazer's theories will be

found to be nothing but spirited fancies (W. Schmidt, §.J.,

Antbropos 4 (1912) 259; A. Munisch, S.J., Evolution and
culture (1923) 4).

7. Frazer was aware of the tentative nature of many of his theories:
“Hypotheses are necessacy but often temporary bridges built to connect isalated
facts. If my light bridges should sooner or later break down or be superseded
by more solid structures, I hope chat my book may still have its tility and its
interest as a repertory of facts' (. G. Frazer, preface to second edition of The
golden bougb (the magic ary) i (1913) (3) xix)
226

Index

244, 246, 2489, 2503, 258, 262,
265, 267, 282, 291, 296, 304
and Trinity College (pamphler) 179
Celsus (Latin author) 22, 255-6
Celtic Studies 69, 79
Studies
t (U.C.C)69

Censorship Board (Bire) 54, 259, 261,
268-9

Chaleedon, Council of (£51) 130
Charles Darwin's
diary of the
of H.M.5. Beagle (book) 237
Davis and bis book (pamphler) 206
Charter Schools (Ireland) 32
Chesterton, G. K. (writer) 40, 80, 261
China (country) 238
Chinese Boxers (revolutionaries) 266

45-6, 50-1, 58, 136, 170, 174, 205,
207, 214, 217, 219-21, 2289, 242-3,

245-8,256-7, 262,281,
269,
283, 299

Cheistian Brothers School (Sexton
Street), 152
Unlon Protestant) 172
Christianity 16-19, 38, 42, 45, 49-50,
56,

58-9,

65,

B2,

Cohalan, Bistiop Daniel 81
Colleges Act, Bill (1845) 147-8
Colley, T.D., George (min. for cd.)
1956, 198

Collins, Michae! (Irish leader) 172
Columbia University (New York) 238
Combar (periodical) 117.19
Commission on Higher Education
(1960-67) 157, 184-5, 197-8

Christ 14-18, 19, 21, 25, 30, 35-7, 42,

52-3,

Codicote (Hertfordshire) 60

on Vocational Organisation (1939~
43) 85
Communism 13, 43-4, 55, 59, 61, 83,
85, 95,97, 102, 141, 199, 291, 293
Communist Party of Iretand 62
of Russia 202
Conference of Convent Secondary
Schools 195
Congo (region) 237
Conimbricenses (theologians) 130
Connach (province) 63
Constaminople (Turkey) 33

Constitution (1937) 144, 159

Conira Ceisum (book) 256
Convent of St Mary of the Isle (Cork)
51
Convocation {N.UL) 162
Cooper, Rev. . M. (editor) 237
Cootehill (Cavan) 193
Corinth {Greece) 38, 243
Corinsbians, Letter to the (New Testa-

84, 93,

100-1, 230-1, 235, 239, 241-3, 245,
247, 255, 257, 281, 297
Christians 21-4, 26, 42, 45-7, 57, 114,
203-6, 215, 224, 246, 291
Chiristus Rex (3 Catholic Society) 171
Rex (periodical) 103
Cburch and State in moders Ireland
7823-2979 (book) 91
of England 20-2, 28, 104; see also
Anglican Church and Anglicans
of Ireland 23-4, 26-8, 100
of ireland Gazette and Family
Newspaper 25, 101, 120
Times (newspaper) 23
of the Sacred Heare (Donnybrook) 31
Citizen Kane (flim) 74-5
City Hall (Cork) 36
Clann na Poblachra (party) 92
Clare (county) 38, 154-5
Clergy Review (periodical) 203, 253

ment) 229, 243, 257

Cork and Muskerry Light Railway 284

(city) 17, 279, 31-2, 36-8, 41, 46-7,

51,53, 65-72, 74, 79-81, 83-91, 93,
99, 1068, 110-111, 121, 123,
128-30, 1324, 147-51, 153, 1567,
1625, 167-8, 170-3, 176-80, 184,
187, 193, 198, 200, 202, 208, 210,
212-14, 216-17, 2667, 284-90, 308
{county) 74, 86, t54-S, 287
North 155
South 155
{diocese) 27, 175
Co-operator (newspaper) 287
Corpaoration 88, 284-9

Clermont convent (Rathnew) 172

Clonfert (diocese) 179
Clonliffe (Dublin) 190, 209
College, see Holy Cross College,
Clonliffe

District Hospiral 89

Evening Ecbo (newspaper) 80, 308
Examiner (acwspaper) 27, 31, 36,
72, 81, B4, 128, 151, 171, 287, 289

331

Alfred O'Rabilly IL: Controversialist

Free Press (ncwspaper) 70
Holly Bough {annual) 81
Savings Bank 27
University Graduates’ Club 36
University Press 46, 66, 128, 130
University Record 216
Corkery, Professor Daniel {writer) 70
Corry, T.D., MartinJ. 90
Cosgrave, William T. (former head of
govt) 172
Costello, T.D., JohnA. (Taoiseach)92,
95, 102, 113, 117
General Michael J. 172, 189
Peter (writer) 111
Coulton, George G. (historian) 32,
220, 230
Council of Administration for Primary
Schools {archdiocese of Dublin)
186

of the Royal College of Veterinacy
Surgeons (London) 181
Covean, T.D., Captain Peadar 102-4,
118-19, 183

St

Vincent's

haspital) 210
Coyne, $J., Fr Edward 107, 122
Crane, $.J., Fr Paul (writer) 103
Crists for Christianity (book) 231
Cromwell, Oliver (dictator) 265

Cronin, Anthony (writer) 110
Cros, $)., Fr L.J. M. (writer) 34
Cultural anthropology (book) 237,
278
Commission (Dublin Corporation)
183

Cumann na nGaedheal (party) 160
Curie, Eve (writer) 76
Marie (scientist) 76
Cushing, Cardinal Richard 133, 136
Czechoslovakia (conatry) 217
D4il Eireann 44, 87, 95, 1023, 112,

116, 11920, 127, 138, 158, 1613,
166-8, 180, 188, 289
Daily Express (newspaper) 235
News (newspaper) 261
Worker (newspaper) 22
Dalkey (Dublin) 59
D'Alton, Cardinal John 81; see ill. 15
Dante Alighleri (poet) 114

Darwin, Charles (scientist) 18, 40,
1334,

224, 237, 263, 271, 274,

277-8, 293, 2978
Davis (Californiz) 91
Fr Charles (theologian) 203-7
de Blacam, Aodh (writer) 70
De Brosses, President Charles 67
de Brén, Mgr Pédraig (polymath) 131,
1747
de Chardin, Pére Tellhard (anthropologist) 207, 238, 273

de Grandsmaison, $)., 1. (writer) 228
de Jerphanion, $.]., G. {writer) 248
de 12 Boullaye, SJ., Perc Pinard
(anthropologist) 236-7
de Valera, T.D., Famon (Taciscach)
92, 123, 126, 128, 135, 1489, 208,
211-2, 290; see ill. 15
Deeny, Dr James (writer) 91
Delany, $J., Fr William 307
Delaunay, Abbé (anthropologist) 238
Dengel, Dr Anna (founder of a
religious institute) 38
Dental Hospital (Dublin) 182
Der Mensch aller Zeiten (book) 236
Ursprung der Gottesidee (book) 236

Derrick, Paul (writer) 41
Derry (ciry) 142
(county) 142
Journal {newspaper) 23
Developmental stages in

embryos (book) 91

buman

Devon (England) 35, 129
Dewey, John (educationalist) 293
Die Geschichte der scholastichen
Metbode (book) 229
Rassen und Volker der Menscheit
(book) 236

Stellung der Pygmdenvolker ..
{book) 236
Dignan, Bishop Joha 179
Dillon, T.D., James 161, 167. 180,
290
.
Dinan, C.8.8p., Fr Vincent J. 129-30,
132, 136; see ills. 13 and 14
Divine Office 209
Divtni Iltius Magistri (papal encycll
cal) 303

Dixon, Mrs Clare (nurse) 211
‘Dr Kildare' films 75
332

Index

Doctrine and Life (periodical) 143
in the Church of Angland (pamphlet)
2
Dominican Convent (Galway} 36
Order 48, 51, 75

Donegal (county) 142

Donnybrook (Dublin) 31, 51
Donovan, Thomas D. (writer) 70
Douglas, Major C. H. (economist) 201

Douglasism (3 theory of money
popularised by MajorC. H. Douglas)
201
Dover Publications (New York) 174
Dowa (county), 142
South 142

Downey, Archbishop Richatd 225
Doyle, Jack (boxer) 84
S3., Fr William 31, 49, 174
Drake, Francis (pirate) 75
Dublin (archdiocese) 94, 96, 129-30,
136, 146, 175, 182-3, 186

(city} 13-16, 26-8, 31, 36, 434, 50,

54, 589, 61, 64-5, 69, 76-7, 79-80,

B85, 91, 100, 107, 110111, 116,
121,
147,

124, 128, 130, 135,
150-2, 154, 1%6-68,

1424,
170-2,

174-80, 18291, 1934, 197-200,
208, 212, 262-3, 270, 293, 305, 307
(county) South 171
Adult Education Commiltee

City University 158
Corporation 183

188

Institute for Advanced Studies 76-7,
79, 111
Institule of Catholic Sociology 171,

188, 200
Ducange Anglicus (writer) 249
Ducrost, Abbé (anthropologist) 238

Duff, Frank {co-founder of Legion of
Maty) 172, 199; see ill. 16

Dugmore, C. W. (lecturer, Unlversity
of Manchester) 21
Duignan, Professor Michael 162
Din Laoghaire (Dubtin) 210
Dundalk (Louth) 171
Durham (England) 50
Dwyer & Co., Messrs (Cork) 2H7

Earisfort Terrace (Dublin) 152, 158,
197

Early Givitisation (book) 227, 275
man (book) 258
Easter Rising (1916) 209
Eddington, A. (scientist) 263
Egypt (country) 246-8
Egyptology (chair) 243-4, 246
Einstein, Albert (scientist) 79, 100, 263
Eire 54, 100, 119, 258, 265, 2689

Eisenhower, General Dwight 297
Electricity Supply Board (E.5..) 208
Etectro-magnetics. A discussion of
fundamenials (book) 174

Elias, O.F.M.,

Br (companion

of St

Francis) 220
Elizabeth | (queen) 75
Elphin (diocesc) 193
Ely Place (Dublin) 171
Ends and means (ook) 256
England (country) 21-2, 35, 62, 64-5,
72,75, 118, 193,206, 233,241,251,
259-60, 262-3, 281, 293, 298, 308
English (language) 119, 217
Epictetus (philosopher) 242
Erinville Hospital (Cork) 86, 88, 90,
284-9

Ecne (lake) 145
Ecnst, O.P., Fr Cornelius (writer) 206
Established Church (UK ) 28; sce also
Church of England
Etudes Carmdlitaines (peciodical) 217
Eucharist, The 13-14
Eucharlstic Congress (Budapest) 14
Eucharistic Congress (Dublin) 13
Europe {continent} 33, 47, 65,

114,

238, 249, 291
European civitisation (book) 234,
236, 272

Evans, Harvey (T.C.D.) 26
Professor Juhn (U.C.D.) 172
Evolution and culture (book) 226
in religion and culture (book) 278
in religion and education (book)
234, 238
Expertment in autobiography (book)
240, 246, 250-1, 280
Eyre, E. (writer) 234, 272

Fabian Society 60
Fahey, C3Sp., Fr Denis (writer)
1987202
333

Alfred O'Rabilly HI: Controversialist
Faith and facts (pamphler) 13, 235

Fallon, Gabriel (writer) 146
Farren, Robert (poct) 83
Farrington, B.E., A. 263

Fascism 234

Fr O'Leary Total Abstinence Hall
(Cork) 36
Fatber William Doyle, 5., A spirtsual study (book) 31, 174
Faulhaber, Cardinal Michael von 217
Eawsite, J. L. (writer) 70
Fechan, Matthew (ed., Surnday Press)
35
Fechan, Sedn (writer and publisher) 46
Feeney, SJ., Fr Leonard 62
Fehlly, Fr G. Thomas 200
Felict, Mm Rev Breore (apostolic ounclo}

F:nn:lly, Fr Joha (writer) 52
Fermanagh (county) 137, 142
Perns (dlocese) 199-200

Fiauna Fiil (government) 92, 123,
126-7,

161

(pacty) 89, 126, 161

Fine Gael (party) 160-1
Fire over England (film) 73
Firinne (Irish-speaking subsidiary of
Marfa Duce) 200
Firmin Didot (edition of works of
Voltaire) 67
Eischer, Alfons (cugenicls) 294
Fitzgerald, Barry (actor) 72
FitzRoy, Captain (colleague of Charles
Darwin) 237
Flanagan, Deirdre (daughter of Frank)
209
Frank (brother-inaw of William T.
Cosgrave) 172, 209
Flann Q'Brien: an Wiusirated biography (book) 111
Fleet Strect (London) 214
Flinders Petrie, W. M. (writer) 247-8
Flinn, Hugo V. (writer) 70
Fontenclle, Mgr K. (blographer) 254
For cluilisation (book) 297
Ford, C. 8. (writer) 298
Fordham University (New York) 218
Fort Worth (Texas) 74

Fortigbtiy Review 230, 277
Fosst! man fn Spain {book) 236

Fra Angelico (painter) 248
France (country) 68, 122, 128, 202,
2323, 235, 238-9, 274
Franciscan Tertiaries 44
Franco Bahamonde, Generalissimo
Francisco (dictator) 232-3, 262
Frazer, Sir James George (anthropologist), 2269, 230, 232, 234
Frederick: he Great (book) 261
Freeman'’s Journal (newspaper) 53
Freemasonry 199, 201-2, 254
and the anti-Christian movement
(book) 202
French (language) 46-7, 136, 199, 218
Revolution 46, 235, 301

Revolution (book) 261
Sedn (lord mayor of Cork) B0
Freud, Sigmund (founder of psychoanalysls) 260, 281, 293
Frezenberg (Belgium) 31
Fribourg (Switzerland) 38
University 38
Friends of Sovict Russia 62
Froude, James Anthony (historian)
261

Gaicty Theatre (Dublin) 31, 43
Gaitskell, M.P., Hugh (Brit. chancellor) 92
Galattans, Letter to the (New Testament) 243
Galileo Galilei (astronomer) 18
Gallagher, Frank (writer) 70
Galway (clty) 36, 50, 878, 117,
1478, 151, 155, 157, 162, 1752,
184, 195, 198
(diocese) 110, 175
Ganges (river) 252
Garde, O P., Fr Thomas 51
Gemelli, OF.M., Fr Agostino (psy
chologist) 103-4
General Council of County Gouncils
180
Genasis (Ola Testament), 24, 234
Geneva (Switzerland) 13
George's Hill (Dublin) 170
Germany (country), 35, 81, 218, 242,
251, 274, 29%; sce alsv Third Reich
Gibbon, Edward (histarian) 235
Monk (writer) 39, 70
334

Index

Gladstone, Willlam
(Brit. prime
minister) 253
Glasgow (Scotland) 231
Glenade (Mt Merrion Avenuc) 172
Glenties (Donggal) 193
Glossarium (book) 249
God and Mr Wells (book) 245, 280

God the invisible king (book) 2323,
240-1, 249, 257, 265, 277, 279
Goguel, M. (writer) 241
Gold Standard, The 201

Goldberg, Gerald Y. (solicitor) 202
Golden Hour (periodical) 51
Goldenweiser, A. A. (anthropologist)
227, 2745

Gokismith, Oliver (poet) 271
Goldstein, David (writer) 199
Gomme, A. W. (writer) 231
Good, Rev Professor Jamea 171
Good Shepherd Gonvent (Belfast) 171
Shepherd Sisters 208
Gordan, David (writer) B2
Gaspel meditations {book) 173
Grabmann, Martin (theologian) 229
Gribner, F. (anthropologist) 274

Grif, Dr Hilda C. (writer) 35, 41, 171,

21723

Grand Central Cinema (Limerick) 36
Lodge (of frecmasons of Feance) 202
Orient (freemasonry) 202
Grant, Bishop 64
Gray, Tony (writer) 108
Great

Britain

22,

66,

103,

1234,

139-40, 142, 144, 232, 251, 261,
270, 274; see also United Kingdom
and Bull, John
Northeen Railway 145
Greek (language) 26, 130, 231, 242,
247

Greek meuaphysics 205
Gresham Hotel (Dublin) 15-16, 36,
170

Hacckel, E. H. (wrlter), 234, 245, 259,
268, 2756
Halle (university, Germany) 222
Handbuch der altchristiichen spigrapbik (book) 247
Hanly, Bishop Vincent 193
Hacrington, T. R. (ed., Irish Independent) 44

Harvard (university, Boston) 68, 70,

80, 85, 133

Hayes, Scnaror Michael 168

Health Act (1947), 97, 120

(1953) 1267, 177
medicine_and politics tn lreland
1900-1970 (bock) 91
Service (Brit,) 92
Healy, M.E., Timothy 70
Heane, John (dept. of ext. affairs)
172
Hebrew (language) 130
Hebrews, Letter to (New Testament)
249

Heidelberg (Gecmany) 100
(university) 100
Henry VIII (king) 16, 62
Herben, Jan (writer) 72
Herder (publisher) 217
Hetmes (mythological figurc) 248
Herod Antipas (Palestine) 283
Hertfordshire (England) 60
Heslod (Greek poct) 216
Hibernia {newspaper) 45, 126, 137,
139, 142, 144, 146, 1526, 138,
1623, 167
Hickey, Councillor J. (Cork Corparatlon, lord mayor) 287-8
Councillor J. C. (mayor of Limerick)
14950
Hierocles of Alexandria (Greek writer)
257
Higgins, F. R. (poet) 29, 70

293, 304

High Gods tn North America (book)
236
Hillel Jewish rabbi, writes) 242
Hillery, T.D., Dr Patrick (min. for ed.)
159-60, 189, 194-5
(mythological Agure)
Hippocrates

216; see ill. 10

Hirsch, E. A. (writer) 182
His Holiness Pope Plus X1 (book) 254

Griffln,

C.$.5p.,

general) 38

Fr

Francis

(father

Guild of §S Luke, Cosmas and Damian

(Catholic organisation) 37, 1235,

Gusinde, Fr M. (writer) 237
Gwynn, Professor Denis 128, 211,

299-300

335

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Alfred O'Rabilly I1I: Controversialist

Histoire de Noire Dame de Lourdes
(book) 34
History of England (book) 261
of the dogrma of the Trimity (book)
241
of the popes (book) 29, 231
Hitler, Adolf (dictator) 37, 265-6
Hobbes, Thomas (philosopher) 255-6,

261
Hoeltker, Fr G. (editor) 236
Hogan, Professor JJ. 162
Professor James 70
Thomas, see Woods, Thomas
Holland (country) 1923, 297
Holles Streer hospital (Dublin) 155
Hollywood (California) 49, 74
Holy Cross College (Clonliffe) 190, 209
Ghost Fathers 378, 210, 212
Ghost Misslonary College (Kimmage)
199

Ghost Order 129, 132,170, 190, 200
Land 132, 170-1, 208
See (Rome) 21, 80, 254
week liturgy 213
Hooker, Sir J. D. (botanlst) 298
Honan chapel (U.C.C.) 128
Horgan, john (Cork Corporation) 289
Horus (mythological fgure) 246-8
Hospitals Act (1939) 286

House of Commons (Brit.) 92, 147

Imperial Deputy Grand Chaplain
(Orange Order) 95
Incarnation (doctrine) 73
India {country) 139
Indians {U.S.A.) 75
Indulgences (2 Catholic devotion) 32-3
Inquisirion, see Spanish Inquisition
Instirure of Catholic Education (achdiocese of Dublin) 182
of Electrical Engineers 157

of Mechanical Engineers 157
Intercom (periodical) 78
international Catholic Girls Protection Sociery 41
Labour Organisation (LL.O ) 13
LR.A., see Irish Repuhlican Army
Ireland (country) 14, 21, 23-4, 26-8,

37, 41, 48, 50, 53.5, 62, 64.5, 69,
723, B0, 823, 90-3, 95, 96-101,
108, 114-16, 11921, 123, 128,
131-2,

13645,

147-64,

1668,

174:85, 187, 190, 192, 194, 197-8,
202, 211, 213, 258, 260-2, 2657,

270, 290, 298; sce also Eire and

Irish Free State
Act (1949) 144
Iris Oifigiitl 268
Irish (language) 55, 118, 121
Academy of Letters 112
-Americans 62-4

of Lords (Brit.} 105

Association of Catholic University
Students 171
Catholic (newspaper) 53, 63
Christian Brothers 73
Beclestastical Record (petiodical)
15, 200, 253
Free State 13, 144, 202
Historical Studies (petiodical) 51
Hospitals' Sweep Fund 138
Independent (newspaper) 15, 29-30,
44, 65, 1669, 175-6, 199
Labour Pasty 69
Labour Party and Trade Union Con-

Howell, $]., Fr Clifford
(liturglst) 52
Hughes, $]., Fr Scin (educationalist)
1967
Tulron, Edward (prop., Picture Pasr)
54:5, 270
Human embryology and teratology
(book) 51
Hungary (country) 145
Hutchinson (publisher) 237
Huxiey, Aldous (writer) 256
Julian (weiter) 276
Leonard (writer and broadcaster) 40,
240, 260
Thomas Henry (scientist) 18, 40,
134, 2346, 241, 278, 297-8
Hyde, Douglas (journalist) 214

Medical Assuciation 100, 123, 1267
News (newspaper) 268
Nurses Organisation (LN.O.) 123

1 deap vver the wall (hook) 206
1 was Hitler’s prisoner (book) 260

indust
and political
ria
democracy
l
(newspaper) 69

336

geess 262

Opinion:

a

weekly

journal

of

Index

Press (newspaper) 30, 43, 1734
Republican Army {IRA) 1378,
140-6, 265
-Soviet Friendship Society 61-2
Statesman (petivdical) 69-70
Theological Quarterly (periodical)
262

Témes (ncwspaper) 23, 26, 39, 60,
66, 92-6,99-101, 104-11, 115, 117-

23, 141, 1467, 151, 158, 189-90
Times Ltd 109
Trade Union Congress 112
Tribune, @ weekly review of affatrs
(periodical) 68-72
Universities Act (1908) 153
Veterinary Journal 182
Isis (mythological figure) 246-8, 253
Italy (country) 103, 247, 298
I¥y, A. C. (writer) 296

Jackson, T. A. (militant atheist) 22
Jacob (Hebrews) 249
Jacquier, E. (theologian) 228
Jandhara (Indiz) 248
Jansenism 65

Japan (country) 2523
Jeans, ). H. (scientist) 263
Jerusalem (Palestine) 228, 230
Jesuits, see Society of Jesus
Jesus Christ (periodical) 228
vor Pilatus (book) 230

Jews 95, 97, 101, 126, 194, 199, 202,

240, 256, 262, 296
Jinja (Japanese national temples) 253
Joad, Professor Cycil Edwin Mitchenson 17, 296

Jobn Huss and bis followers (book) 72
O'London’s Weekly (periodical) 29
Scotus Eriugena (philosapher) 27, 73
Jones, Heary Arthur (playwright) 53
Jordana, O.P, Mother M. (educationalist) 196-7
Journat of researchos (book) 237
Joumal of tbe American Modical
Assaciation (perlodical) 296
Joyce, James (writer) 82, 146
Juno and the paycock (play) 72

Kant, Emmanuel (philosopher) 50, 256
Kanturk (Cork) 37

Kastner, K. (writer) 230
Kaufmann, C. M, (writer) 247
Kavanagh, Fr James (sociologist) 99
Kearney, Pat (writer) 148
Keith, Sir Arthur (wrlter) 255, 258,
263, 277

Kenny, John (assist. lecturer, U.C.D.)
161
Kensit, J. A. (anti-Catholic bigot) 245
Kerry (county) 69, 151, 134, 287
North 155
(diocese) B1
(newspaper), 41, 139

K

Kevin Street (Dublin) 157
Kharkov (Soviet Unlon) 61
Kiernan, Dr Thomas ]. (dir., Radio
Eireann) 40-1

Killanin, Lord (writer) 104

Killarney (Kerry) 36-7, 43, 81

(parish) 81
Killeshandta (Cavan) 171
Killiney (Dublin) 184
Kilroy, P. J. (Anti-Partition of Ireland
League) 120
Kimmage Manor (Dublin) 170, 199,
212

Kinane, Archhishop Jeremiah 132
Kinlen, 5.C., Dermot P. 157

Kirav (Soviet leader) 60, 76
Kitty Foyle (film) 74
Knighthood of St Gregory the Great
132
Knights of $t Columbanus 171
Knox, John (Reformer) 73
Mgr Ronald (writer) 24, 255, 264
Konnersreuth {Germany) 35, 129,
217-20, 223

Koppers, Fr W. (anthropologist) 236-7
Korea (country) 92
Kreichgauer, Fr Damian (anthropoloist) 237
Kremlin (Moscow) 59
Kroceber, A. L. (anthropologist) 274
Kronos (mythological figure) 226
Kugler, SJ., Fr F. X. {Assyriologist)
237
Kulturkampf 265

1a Ciré Chrérienne (periodical) 273
La Prensa (newspaper) 109
337

Alfred O'Rabilly II: Controversialist

La volx des monuments (book) 248
Labour Pasty 202
Lagrange, O.P., M. J. (writer) 228,
230, 237, 242, 279
Lamarck, ). B. (naturalist) 263
Lang, Andrew (writer) 230
Larkin, James (Labour leader) 58
L'art chrésien (book) 248
Lartet, Dr Edward (archaeologist) 238
Lateau, Louise (stigmatist) 220
Lateran (palace) 236
Lateran treaty (1929) 254
Latin (language) 47, 130, 253
Latin America 21
Laughing Irish Eyes (film) 74
Laurentian Saclety (T.C.D.) 172-3
Le cas de la visionnaire stigmatisée
Thérese Neumann de Konnersresth

Lightfoot, J. B. (schotar) 254
Lilliput (newspaper) 260, 268
Limerick (city) 36, 55, A7, 137,
147-54, 1568, 160, 200
(county) 151, 154-5
(diocese) 163
Chamber of Commerce
148-9
Teachers’ Training College 153

Leader (newspaper) 68, 50
League of Millant Atheists (Great
Britain) 22
Lebreton, Pare (theologian) 241
Lechler, Dr (writer) 221
Lecky, W. E. (historian) 27
Leeson Street (Dublin) 305
Legion of Mary (2 Catholic organisstion) 15-16, 367, 43, 130, 1712,
187-8, 199-200
Leiber, $.)., Fr Robert (writer) 222
Leinster House {Dublin), 117, 119,

Liverpool (England) 33-4, 243

{book) 218
Le Roy, Mgr A. (anthrapologist) 236

1401, 143

Lemberg (archdiocese) 217
Lenihan, T.D., Brian {min. for ed.) 198
D. M. {writer) 70
Leo XIII (pope) 15
Letsers and motices (book on Society
of Jesus) 52
Leétude comparde des religions (book)
2367
Leviathan (book) 256, 261, 264
Liddy, Mrs Margaret (sec., Limerick
University Project) 152
Lietzmann, H. {scholar) 254
Life and letters (book) 278
Life and letters of Thomas Henry
‘Huxley (book) 241, 260
Life of Christ (book) 235
Liffey (river) 69

Technical Tnstituee 151, 157
University

160

Project

147-33,

1367,

Leadsr (newspaper) 152
Lisieux (France) 131
Listener (periodical) 83
Listowel (Kerry) 131, 151
Urban District Council 151
Literary and Philosophical Society
U.C.C) 41, 202
Little, T.D., Patrick ). (min. for posts
and telegraphs) 41, 70, 172
Cathedral 33
University 243
Living anasomy (baok) 91
Licrente (historian) 76
Local Appointments Commission §7-8
Loisy, A, F. (writer) 228, 235, 241
London (England)

13, 53-4, 58, 73,

79-80, 84, 104, 128, 153, 181,214,
217, 234, 249, 262, 305
University 153, 234, 271
Lorant, Stefan (publisher) 260, 268
Loreto Conveat (George's Hill) 170
L'origine des btres vivants; U'liiusion
transformiste (book) 273
Lost property: proposals for the distribution of property in an
industrial age (book) 41
Lourdes (France) 19, 29, 34, 219
Lowrdes (book) 34
Louvain (Belgium) 136
University 136
Lowle, Professor R. H. (anthroplogist)
227
Lucey, Blshop Cornelius B1, 128, 132,
134, 1756, 179; see Ul 12
Lunn, Arnold (writer) 32, 246
Luther, Martin (Reformer) 15-16, 50,
242
Lynch, T.D., Jack 161, 212

338

Index

Lyons, Eugene (writer) 59
Dr). B. (physician) 211
Mac an Fhali, Ciarin (soliciror) 142-6
Mac Aonghusa, Cricstbir (writer) 70
Macarius, M, (writer) 257
MacAthar, General Douglas 92
Macaulay, Lord Thormas {writer) 25,
233
MacBride, Professor E. M. (zoologist)
251, 263
MacBride, T.D., Sein (min. for ext.
affairs) 92, 95, 127
McCabe, Joseph (writer) 231-2, 234,
245, 278

McCarron, E. P. (sec., dept. of loc.
gov) 172
McCarthy, €.5.5p., Archbishop Jobn J.
133; see .

14

CS3p., Fr Michael 198, 203,
210-12, 216
Professor Michael D. 154; see ill. 9
P. M. (Limerick University Project
Ctee) 1536
T.D., Sedn 289
Macchioro, V. D. (writer) 228
McConnell, Provost Alberr ). 197-8,
212
McCormick, W. J. (biographer) 80
Mac Curtain, Tomés Republican) 202
McDonogh, Bernard (painter) 137
McDowell, R. B, (historian) 29
McDougall, William (writer) 78
McElligott, James (sec., dept. of fin.)
172
Mac Eoln, General Sedn 172; see ill. 16
McGilligan,
T.D., Paurick 167, 182, 196

McGrath, Archbishop Michael 132
McGreevy, Thomas (poer) 83
Machiavelli, Nichola (writet) 73
McLaughlin, Dr Thomas A. (architect
of ES.B.’s Shannon scheme) 208
McMahon, 3., Fr John (provincial)
213
McManus, Francis (writer) 171
MacEatee,

T.D., Scin 70

McNamara, Brinsley (writer) 39
Macon, Council of (5B5) 78
McQuaid, Archbishop John C. 96,
124, 1267, 129-34, 136, 1467,

170-2, 17491, 193.8, 200, 209,
211-12; see ills 13 and 15
McQuillan, T.D., Jack 159, 161-2, 167
Macea na Feirme 85
McRedmand, Louis (writer) 82
Madama Curle (book) 76
(film) 76
Madeyskl, Dr Roleslas de Poray (physician) 21820
Malia (Sicilian) 141
Magnificat Socicty (U.C.D.) 150
Maguirc, B. Waldo (T.C.D.) 28-9
Maher, 8., Fr Michael (psychalogist)
305-7
Mahomet (prophet) 245, 280
Malay (tegion) 237, 239

Malin Head (Doaegal) 119
Malinowski, B. (anthropologist) 274
Maliow (Cork) 37, 69
Malone, Andrew E. (nows-de-plume)
68, see also Byrne, Laurence P,
Manchester (England) 21, 85, 239
College (Oxford) 239
Guardian {newspaper) 147
Manning, Cardinal Edward 105
Mansion House (Bublin) 61, 130, 170
Marcion (heresiarch) 242
Marian Hall (Milltown) 170
Shrine (Lourdes) 34
Year (1954) 129
Maria Duce (2 Catholic organisation)
200
Marlana (theologian) 73
Maritain, Jacques (philosopher) 105
Martha (sister of Lazarus, Netw Testament) 135
Martin, Rev Professor Conor 124, 187

Kingsley (ed., New Statssman) 22
Fr Liam ( sec., A.B. McQuald) 182-3,
186, 188-9, 190-1, 195
Mother Mary (foundress of Medical
Missionaries of Mary) 38
Martini, Dr (physician and visitor to
Konaersreuth) 220
Macx, Karl (philosopher) 40, 49, 293
Marxism 57, 83, 102
Mary (Mother of Christ) 15-16, 20-1,
25, 34, 36, 43, 135, 171-3, 187-8,

199-200, 209, 244-9, 269, 305
(sister of Martha, New Testament) 135
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Alfred O’Rabilly 1II: Controversialist
Mass

13-14,

29, 32-3, 52, 81,

132,

134, 136, 1467, 171, 208.9, 212,
214, 227, 229, 249, 256, 268, 280,
283

stipends 32
Mater Hospital (Belfast) 138
(Dublin) 182
Matrimonial Causes Bill (Brit. 1951)
104
Maxwell, ). A. L. (scieatist) 263
Maya (civilisation) 237
(mythological figure) 244
Maynooth (Kildare) B1, 100, 112,
11617, 141, 152
Mayo (county) 154
Medical Burcau {Lourdes) 219

Missionaries of Mary 38
Missionary Society (U.C.C.) 130

Melanchton, Philipp (Reformer} 73
Melbourne, Lord W. L. 233
Memoirs (book, Gibbon's) 235
Memoirs of a wild goose (book, C.
Bewley's) 80

Men of the old storie age (book) 278
Menchen, H. L. (writer) 75
Mendel, G. J. (biologist) 236
Menghin, Oswald fanthropologist) 273
Merchants Quay (Dublin) 171
Mercier, Vivian (writer) 66
Press (Cork) 46, 217
Merrion Square (Dublin) 172
Mexico (covntry) 15

Middleton, Mr {English broadcaster)39
Mikado (Shintoism) 252-3
Mitan (ltaly) 103
Miller, René Faldp (writer) 15
Milltown (Dublin) 170
Park (Dublin) 170, 210
Milroy, T.D., Sein 70
Mindszenty, Archhishop Joseph 102
Missionaries of the Sacred Heart
(Cork) 37
Missionary - Ethnological Muscum
(Lateran) 236

Mitchell, Rev. Frederick R. (Monasterevan) 101
Mivart, St George Jackson (biologist)
133-4, 263, 2978
Modern materiatism (book) 78
Monasterevan (Kildare) 101

Money (book) 82:3, 201
manipulation and the social order
(book) 199, 201

Mongolia (country) 238
Monutheism among primitive peoples
{book) 275

Montalembert,

Charles Forbes R. de

(histocian) 25
Monte Cassino (monastery, lraly) 19
Month (periodical) 28, 62, 230
Montini, Mgr Giovanni Bartista 122
Moonlighters (agents of agrarian
uarest) 266
Montpellier (France} 91
Moral principles (pamphict) 38
Moran, P. F. (writer) 193
More-O'Farrell, Edward (member of a
Patrician Confercnce) 172
Morning Star Hostel (North Brunswick
Streer) 43
Morrissey, §. )., Fe T. J. (writer) 202
Mortished, R. J. P. (writer) 70
Moscow (Russia) 23, 41, 61, 85, 233
Moses (Dld Testament) 260
Moshi (diocese (n Tanzania) 131
Most, Johann (writer) 83
Mother-and-child scheme, service 85,
89,912, 96-7, 107, 111, 117, 119,
121,

123,

126-7, 141,

177, 290

Mount Kilimanjaro (Kenya) 38
Merrion Avenne (Dublin) 172
St Joseph's Abbey (Roscrea) 134
Moynihan, Fr Denis (adm., Killarney)
81
Maurice (set., cabinet) 172
Mr & Mrs Smith (film) 74
Mr Belloc obfects (book) 225, 239
My Smyiite, Sir (book) 108
My Wells as bistorian (book) 231

Muckross Park Convent (Donnybrook)
51

Muintir na Tire 85
Mulcahy, T.D., Richard 167
Munich (Germany) 268
Munster (province) 70, 147, 156
Muntsch, 8., Fr A. (anthropologist)
226, 237, 275

Murnaghan, Ms Justice George 161
Murphy, Con (organiser of ad. ed.)
128,172, 210, 307
340

Index

Fr John ). (Bob) (adm., Killarney) 37
Murray, CS.C., Fr Edward (Notre
Dame) 128
$J., Fr Jobn Courmey (theologian)
207
R. H. {writer) 73
Muskerry (Cork) 284-5, 287
Muslims 44
My decr Wells (book) 53
My duel with the Vatican (book) 235
My pigmy and negro bosts (book) 237
Myles na gCopaleen (writer) 108-11
Mystical phenomena in the life of
Thérdse Newmann (book) 217
Naber, P.P., Fr (Konnersreuth) 35,
129, 220
Nagle, Nano (foundress of Prescatation Sisters) 31-2
Nairobi (archdiocese in Kenya) 133
Naples (Italy) 48
Napoleon (dictator) 59

Nash, $J., Fr Robert (writer) 171
National Institute of Higher Education
(Limerick) 157
Socialist Party (Mazi Party) 94, 100,
141; scc also Nazism
University of Ireland (N.U.L) 38, 48,
50, 89-91, 128, 131, 148-64, 166-8,
174-85, 187, 190, 197-8

Club 128
Narure (periodical) 263, 273
Nazareth (Palestine) 241-2

Saciety (Belfast) 367

“Nicheve' {num-de-plume) 106-7
Nicholson, Professor ). A. 182

Nigeria {country} 38

Nile (iver) 243, 252

No laugbing matter (book) 110
Nobel Prize 76

Nolan, Mgr J. M. (psychologist) 78
S$J., Thomas V. (proviacial) 305
Nan abbiama bisogno (encyclical)
254
North Brunswick Sireet (Dublin) 43
Infirmary (Gork) 86
of Irctand 6%, 116, 120, 145
Northampton (diocese) 136
Northern Ireland 95, 98, 100, 137-44,
258, 266, 292; see also North of

Ireland
Notes o the Orpbeus of M. Salomon
Reinach (book) 230, 279
Notre Dame (university, Indiana) 64,
128
Noyes, Alfred (writer) 65-7
N.UL, see Mational University of
Ireland

Nullity of marriage (book) 251
Narenberg (Germany) 296
Nys, M. (philosopher) 136

Obermaier, Abbé Hugo (anthropologist) 236, 273
O'Brien, Conor Cruise (writer) 83—
Professor George (economist) 82,
172

Fr James (dean of residence, U.C.C.)

Nazism 250-1, 260, 264, 295-6, 300;

see also Narional Secialist Parry
Nether Edge Hospital (Sheffleld) 50
Neumann, Thérdse (stigmatist) 34-5,
41,129, 173, 217-23
Nevin, Professor T. E. 162

New English Dictionary 249
freland (newspaper) 69

Qrleans (Lonisiana) 64
Statesman (periodical) 22, 104
Testament {Bible) 15, 66, 130-1,
174, 244
York (US.A) 62, 174
Zealand (country) 201
Newman, Cardinal John Henry (writer)
64, 155, 204, 207

House (Dublin) 124, 293

308

Mrs Sophie (wife of William) 70, 80
M.P., William 69-70, BO

Judge

William 210

O Broin, Le6n (writer) 172

Observer (newspaper) 204, 206

O Cadhlaigh, Cormac (writer) 70

O'Carroll, C.5.8p., Rev. Dr Michacl
(writer) 129, 131, 171, 198-200,
203, 207
O'Casey, Sefn (playwright) 69, 72,
146

O'Connell, William Declan
nalist) 171-2
Q'Connor, Frank (writer) 7}

G Cuiv, Shin (writer) 70

341

(jour-

Alfred O'Rabilly HI: Controversialist
O'Curry,

834

Peadar {cd., Standard)

Orange Order 95, 116-17, 265

55,

i

O'Doherty, Rev. Professor E. F.
(psychologist) 187
ODonnell, Donat 83 see also
OBrien, Conor Cruise
O'Donnell, Peadar {writer) 61-2, 117
O’Donoghue, Eamon (lecturer, U.C.C.)
69-70
O'Donovan, Professor James M. BS
O'Driscoll, C.SSp., Fr Timothy
211.12

41,534
Origen (Latin Chuech Father) 256
Origin and growth of religion (book)
237, 274
O'Rourke, Dr P. D. (physician} 211
Orthodox Church 204
Orwell, George (writer) 61
Oshorn, Professor H. F. (anthropologise) 234, 237.8, 278
O'Shiel, Mrs Cecil (friend of Alfred),
129
Osirls (mythological figure) 243, 246
O'Sullivan, $)., Fe Donal 213
0.C5.0., Fr Hilary (Mt St Joscph's,
Roscrea) 134
Our Boys (comic) 73
Oxford (university, England) 62-4, 66,
106, 217, 239

O Faolsin, Sean (writer) 70-1, 84,
112-17

O°Flaherty, Dr Kathleen (writer) 66-8,
83, 215-16, 308
O'Grady, S.J., Fr Michael (provincial)
1324, 215
O'Hanlon, Fergal (LR.A. activist) 137
O'Hara, Archbishop Gerald P. 130; see
ilt. 12
O'Kelly, Count Gerald 80
Laoghaire, An tAthair Peadar
(writer) 119
Oldd Limerick journai 148
O'Mahony, Mrs Anna (friend of
Alfred) 208
Eoin (writer) 70, 172
Frank (book-seller, Limerick) 55
Timothy (fricnd of Alfred) 208, 210;
seeiill 6
O'Malley, T.D., Donogh 158, 198
O'Meara, Professor John J. (writer)
189
O'Neill, Manus 84; see also O'Curry,
Peadar

O'Neill, Bishop Patrick 183
O'Nolan,

Brian (writer) 108; see also

Myles na gCopaleen
O'Rahilly, Agnes (wife of Alfred)
1289
Professor Cecil (sister of Alfred) 128,
208, 210-11; seeill. 13
Ena (sister of Alfred) 208
0.CS.0,, Fr Michael Anthony
(brocher of Alfred) 134; see ill. 13
Professor Ronan (son of Alfeed) 90,
128, 210
Professor T. F. (brother of Alfred)
70; see ill. 2

TS1) 14,

Palace Thearre (Cork) 72
Palmyra (Palestine) 248
Pan (mythologlcal figure) 299
Panacea (mythological figure) 299
Papal infallibility 15
Paris (France) 46-7, 76
Parker, Fr Anscim (writer) 136
Bishop Leo 136
Pasnell, M.P., Charles Stewart 127
Pasteur, Lonis (sclentist) 214
‘Pat Murphy' column (Standard) 28,
61, 74, B2, 135, 202, 271

Pasterns of sexual bebaviour (book)
298

Pax Christi 1 Christian otganisation)
1423

Pax Romana (U.C.D.) 189-90

Peet, Professor E. (Egyptologist) 243

Penguin (publisher) 260, 264
Pesch, $J., Fr Christian (thealogian)
130

Peter If (New Testament) 24

Petrus de Hibernia, O.P. (Peter from

Ireland) 48

Philbin,

Rev.

Professor

William

J.

(Maynooth) 81
Phillips, William (leader of Catholic
Action) 172

Phoenix Park (Dublin) 13-14

342

Index

Pia, Secondo (photographer) 36
Picture Post (newspaper) 33-5, 224-6,

228-9, 232, 244, 249-40, 252, 256,

25961, 266, 26870, 276
Pilate, Ponlus (Roman gov.) 137, 257,
270
Pioncer Total Abstinence Association
31, 36
Pius X (pope) 15
XI (pope) 301-3

XII (pope) 20
Pliny (historian) 117
Plutarch (poet) 243
Pohle, J. and Preuss, A. (Pohle-Preuss)
(cheologians) 130
Poland (country) 21, 59
Pompeii (Italy) 248
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
(Rome) 103
Portius Festus (Roman official) 256
Portland Row (Dublin) 171
Portugal (country) 201
Post-primary

education

1957-1970 (book) 197
Practexeatus (cemetry) 248

in

iveland

Quarryman (U.C.C. students’ magazine) B4
Quarterly Review 297
Quebee pravince (Canada) 193
Queen'’s Collcges B9

University of Beifast 162, 166, 187

Quinlan, Senator, Professor Patrick M.
168, 180; see ill. 9

Radbruch, Professor (Heidelberg) 100
Radin, P. (anthropologist) 274-5

Radio Eireann 13, 17, 345, 41, 49,

135, 171, 202, 21617

Telefis Bireann 217

Rafroldi, Mes Connie (sisver of Alfred)
208
Randles, Sister Eileen (writer) 197
Raphoe (Doncgal) 193
Rappoport, A. S. (writer) 232
Rathfamham (Dublin} 132, 170
Castle (Jesnit community) 132, 176
Rathnew (Wicklow) 172
Rawalpindi (Indian province) 38
Readers' News (organ of Readers’
Union) 55

Presentatinn Sisters 31

Readers’ Union (U.K.) 55

Primitive man (periodical) 257
man as philosopber (book) 275
religion (book) 227
revelation (book) 236
Principle of Subsidiarlty {Quadragesimo Annc) 105
Prohibition (U.5.A.) 282
Proposals for improved and extended
bealth services (pamphict) 124

Reidy, T.D., Alderman James M. 148
Reinach, A. (writer) 228
Reinach, Salomon (writer) 279
Religlon and conscience in ancient
Egypt (book) 248
and science (pamphlet) 19
Rembrandr (painter) 248
Renan, ). E. (writer) 220, 23, 241,
243, 259
Renouf, Professor Louis P. 133-4
Republic of Ircland 95, 116, 137, 139,
143, 145, 158
Republican Club (U.C.C.) 308
Rerum Novarum (papal encyclical) 85
Revisiting my pigmy bosts (book) 237
Revue Bibligue 228
Rheims (France) 249
Ricciotti, Giuseppe (writer) 30
Rivers, W. K. R. (anthropologist) 274
Riviera {France) 239
Roche, Barney (businessman) 172
Rockwell College (Cashel) 24, 45
Roentgen, W. C. (scicntist) 76, 304

Priestley, ). B. (writer) 39

Protestant Truth Society 249
Protestants 21-5, 95, 97, 100-2,
109, 114-16, 119, 126, 138,

158, 160,

232,
292

239,

180,

245,

107,
140,

183, 190, 1934,

258,

262,

2645,

Proust, Marcel (writer) 111
Proverbs (OId Testament) 1067
Psychology: empirical and rational
(book) 305
Puritanism 64

Quadragestmo _Anno (papal encyclical} 105, 124, 301

Reformation, The 17, 24, 73, 205, 215

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Roman Rota (court) 252
Rome (lualy) 23, 25, 58, 131, 193,

Gemma Gatgani 221

Gregory the Grear 132
Ignatius Loyota 305
Ignatius’ House of Studies (Leeson

195, 232, 245-6, 254
Rosary 13, 209, 214, 249

Roscrea (Tipperacy) 134
Ruse Tattoo (play) 146
Rosenberg, A. (writer) 265
Ross (diocese) 81
Eva J. (writer) 275
Rostay (Soviet Union) 61
Rousseau, J. ). (writer) 50, 301
Royal College of Science (Dublin) 156
College of Surgeons (Dublin} 188
Hospital (Sheffield) 50
Ulster Constabulary (R.U.C)) 137
University of Ireland 153, 155
Ruch, Mgr C. (theologian) 228
Russell, Berirand (philosopher) 17,

Street) 305

Joan of Arc 66, 71-2

John's

241-2, 256-7

Joseph's Home

Testament)

for the Aged (Port-

land Row) 171
Joseph's Young Priests’ Sociery 172
Louis (Missouri) 91
Louis University 91
Luke 37, 123, 125, 242, 293, 304

Luke’s gospel (eww Testament) 242
Mary's College (Stonyhurst) 85
Mary’s Dominican Convent (Belfast)

George (A.E., writer) 70, 82
Russia (country) 15, 59-62, 79, 202,
251; see also Sovier Union

170

Mary's Hall (Belfast) 36
Mary's Hall (Stonyhurst) 305
Matthew's gospel (Vew Testament)
242, 257
Michael’s Hospital (Diin Laoghaire)
210

Ryan, Mgr A. H. (writer) 39

Desmond (writer) 69-70
De James (min. for lac. govt. and pub.
health) 87, 89-90, 124, 177, 289

Professor Mary 46, 66-7

W. P. (writer) 69-71

(New

John's Theatre (Tralee) 36
Joseph the Worker {fease-day) 171

40, 255

8.C., Michacl Joseph

gospel

Parrick 14, 27, 62, 81, 135
Patrick’s Cathedral (Dublin) 27

176

Ryane, Stephen (wrirer) 80

Sabatler, P, (writer) 244
Sacred Congregation for the Propagaton of the Faith (Rome) 253
Congregation of Rites (Rome) 218
St Angela’s College (Cork) 36
Athanasius 93
Auguscine 82, 215
Bantholomew 66, 73
Bernadette Soubirous 34
Catherine of Siena 222
Catherine's
Domestic
Science
College (Sion Hill) 170
Cosmas 37, 123, 125, 293, 304
Damian 37, 123, 125, 293, 304
Dominic 51
Francis of Assisi 35, 44, 220, 230
Erancis Xavier 31, 171
Francis Xavier hall (Upper Sherratd
Street) 31, 171

Patrick's College (Maynouth) 1,
152
Paul 82, 228, 243, 245, 236
Peter 16, 254, 257, 282
Scholastica’s Abbey (Teignmouth}
35, 129
Thérése of Listeux 131, 219
Thomas Aquinas 40, 47-51, 77-8,
81-2, 130
Vincent de Paul 36, 43, 130, 171
Vincent's Hospital (Dublin) 182
Sandy Row (Belfast) 117
Orange Hall 100
Sansceit {language) 237
Sapic, E. (anthropologist) 274
Saunders, Edith (writer) 34
Savoy Cinema (Cork) 36-7
Schebesta, Fr P. (anchropologist) 237
Schmidt, $J., Wilhelm (anthropologlst) 226-7, 234, 236, 239, 2714
School Attendance Bill (1943) 120-1
Schrédinger, Professor Erwin 76.9

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Index

Scolleanna Réalra
na Maldne (Listowel)
131

Sophocles (playwright) 248
Sacrares (philosopher) 242

Seif beip (book) 261
Sertillanges, O.F., Pére A.D. (writer)

sec also University of Paris
South, Sein (LR.A. activise) 137

Seanad Eireann 167-8
46

Set (mythological figure) 243, 246
Sexton Street (Limerick) 152
Shanahan, C.3.5p., Bishop Joseph 133
Shannon (Clare) 193
(tiver) scheme 208
Shaw, G. Bernard (writer) 58-61,
712, 226
Sheed, F. J. (writer) 251-2
Sheehan, Michael (lord mayor, Cork}
289

Sheehy, N.T., Frank (Listowel) 131
Sheehy Skeffington, Andrée (writer)
91
Sheifield (England) 50
Shelbourne Hotel (Dublin) 171, 178
Sheridan, John D. (writer) 199
Sheridan, R. B. (playwright) 271
Shintoism 252
Shroud of Turin 36, 130, 170-1

Siena (ltaly) 222
Simms, Archbishop George Otto 208

Sorbonne

(university,

Paris) 63, 76;

South Africa (country) 50, 81

South Cork Board of Public Assistance
87-90, 2847
Southern Ireland - Church or State?
(pamphlet) 119
Soviet communism: dictatorsbip or
’
Soviet Union fcountey) 59, 61-2, 143,
145; see also Russia
Spain (country) 15, 21, 33, 75, 2323,
258
Spanish civil war 76
Inquisition 75-6

Special Powers Act (Northern Ireland)
265

Spectator (periodical) 22, 261
Spinoza (philosopher) 78
Stalin, Joseph (dictator) 60, 62, 102,
17, 119
Standard (newspaper) 13, 20-30, 34,

Sinn Féin 68-9, 73

52, 54-5, 5B, 61.2, 74.6, B3:5, 92,
99, 104-12, 11719, 1223, 126,
135, 146.7, 173, 201-2, 208, 224,

Siwek, §]., Fr Paul (writer) 35, 218,

278, 290, 293

Sion Hill Convent (Blackrock) 170

233, 239, 244, 250, 258, 268, 271,

220
Skeff (book) 91
Sligo (rown) 137
Smallways, Bect (Tbe war in the atr)

Stanford, Professor W. B. 26-H

Staunton, Bishop James 199-200
Stepinac, Archbishop Aloystus 102
Stiggins, Rey Mr (attitude of) 266

Stockley, Professor W. F. P. 70, B1
Stonyhurst (near Blackburn) 85, 305
Stopes, Marie (writer on birth-control)

255

Smiles, Samuel (wrirer) 261
Smith, Sir F. E. 265
Smyllic, R. M. (ed., Frish Times) 92,
99-100, 105-6, 108, 119-21, 123;

258
Strachey, John (writer) 55-8

Srassmaier, SJ, Fr ). N. (Assyriologist) 237
Strauss, D. F. (writer) 241, 243
Streatfield, G. S. (writer) 232
Student Christian Movement 172
Studies (periodical) 34, 107, 188,

see also "Nichevo'

Social origins (book) 275
rinciples (pamphict) 38
Welfare Act (192) 126, 177

Soclalism 56, 254
Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries 38
of Jesus 52, 73, 130, 133, 136, 190,
210, 213-15, 3056
of St Vincent de Paul 36, 43, 130

190-1, 230

Suarez, §.J., Franciso (theologian) 73,
130

Summa Thsologica (book) 48
Sunday Press(aewspaper) 35, 124, 173

Solutré (excavation at} 238

345

Alfred O'Rabilly llI: Controversiatist
Sunday Times (newspaper) 66
Swanton, J. R, (anthropologist) 274
Swift, jonathan (writer) 270-1
Switzerland (country)
91, 111
Spllabus or collection of modern
errors (book) 15
Syriac (language) 130

254, 256, 258-61, 2656, 2639,
276, 280, 2823
The future of science (ook) 235
The framework of a Christian State
(book) 202
The gap of brightness: lyrical poems
(book) 29
The golden bough (book) 226-9, 234
The intellectual life: #1s sptett, condstons, metbods (book) 46
Tbe invistble man: the Hfe and liverties of H. G. Wells (book) 53
The kingship of Christ according to
the principles of St Tbomas
Aquinas (book) 199
The kingship of Christ and organised
naturalism (book) 199
Tbe kingship of Chriandstibe conversion of the Jewish nation (hook)
199-200
The iife of Christ (book) 30
The meaning of Christianity according to Lutber and bis foliowers in
Germany (book) 242
The memory of our dead (book) 227,
230
The mind and its place in nature
(book) 256
The mission of the university man
(pamphicr) 46
The mystical body of Christ and the
re-organisation of soctety (book)
199

Tacitus (Latin writer) 22, 117, 255
Taft, W. H. (U.S. ambassador) 128
‘Tanzania (country) 131
Tarsus (Asia Minor) 257
T.C.D.: a college miscetiany (periodicaty 28
Teeling, W, (writer) 231
Teevan, Mr Justice Thomas 161
Teignmouth (Devon) 35
Teodorowicz, Archbishop Josef 217,
221, 223
Teresa, O.5B., Mother (St Scholastica’s Abbey) 35, 129
Tertuliizn {Latin Father) 229, 242
Texas (U.S.A) 74
The belief of Catbolics {(book) 24
The Bell {periodical) 67, 71, 834,
11213, 117-18
The Bible 18, 24, 106-7
he Book of Joad {book) 296
The Bulpington of Bulp (book) 259
The Cambridge Anctent History
(book) 243
The case of Thénise Neumann (book)
35,217

Toe Catbolic Church against tbe
fwentieth century (book) 29
The Church and farming (book) 199
The conquest of disease: ibe story of
periicittin (book) 34
The Crucified (book) 36, 174
The decay of the Church of Rome
(book) 232
The descent of man (book) 297
The drums of Father Ned (play) 146
The embryonic buman brain: an
The family at Bethany (book} 174

Te fate of bomo sapiens (book) 53,
55, 224-5, 2279, 2314, 236,
238-41, 2434, 246, 249-50, 252,

The myst
bodyic
of al
Crist tn the
modern world {book) 199
The old stonte age (book) 273
The open conspiracy (book) 251, 264,
279-81
The O'Rahilly (1916 leader) 209
Te origin and growsh of religon
(book) 236
The origin of the spectes (book) 263
The oustine of i
{book) 230,
241-4, 246, 260, 265, 279, 281
The outlook for bamo sapiens (book)
55
The pastoral letters and other
writings of Cardinal Cullen . , . I
(book) 193
The plough and the stars (play) 69

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Index
The power and secret of the papacy

(book) 15
Tbe Practitioner (petiodical) 298
The problem of man’s ancestry (book)
234, 276
‘The Proclamation of 1916, 209
The religion of eartiest man (pamphiet) 236
Tvereligion of later primitive peoples
(pamphlet) 236

The riddle of Konnersreush, a psycho-

logical and retiglous study (book)
35

The rights of man (boak) 54
The rulers of Russia (book) 199
The science of life (bouk) 276
The song of Bernadette (bouk) 34
The thirteenth, greatest of centuries
(book) 81
The war in the air (book) 255
The wark, wealth and bappiness of
mankind (book) 259
Theatre Royal (Dublin) 44
Thealogy (petiodical) 20
Third Reich (Germany) 56

Town Hall (Killarney} 36-7
Tralee (Keery) 36

Trent, Coucil of (1545-63) 21
Trinity College, Dublin 26-7, 29, 50,
77, 104, 135, 15960, 167, 172,
174, 178-86, 18891, 194, 197-8,
212; sce also University of Dublin
Trintty Collsge, Dublin, 1592-1952:
an academic bistory (book) 29,
158, 166
Truman, President Harry 202
Tullabeg (Offaly) 170, 213
Tuohy, Fr Patrick (dean of residence,
U.C.D.) 1867
Turin (aly) 36, 130, 170
‘Turks 33

Tyndall, J. (writer) 282
Tyrol (Austria) 38
Tyrone {county) 142

Ulster (prov) 11920, 140, 142,
1445, 265
Ulster Unlonist Council 119-20
Olysses (book) 146

Une stigmatisée de nos jours (book)
218
United Kingdom (U.K.) 64, 182; see
also Great Britain
Nations (U.N.) 92, 139
States of America (US.A) 21, 38,
62-3, 74, B2, 116, 122, 124, 128,
139, 143, 249, 263, 274, 282, 293
Undverse (newspaper) 80
Université de Montpcilier 91
University College, Cork (.C.C) 17,
29, 368, 41, 467, 53, 66, 69-70,
79, 81, 83-91, 93, 99, 106, 110-11,

Thirty-Ninc_Aricles (of Church of
England) 21
Thomism (philosophical system) 83
‘Thompson, J. J. (scientist) 304
Theift, T.D., Willlam E, 44
Thusston, $J., Fr Herbert 28, 227,
230
Tiemey, Professor Michael 160-3,
17482, 1856, 1978, 216; see ill.
15
Dr Niall (physician) 216
Ticrra del Fuego (Argenting) 237, 239
Tillotson, J. (writer) 235
Times, Tbs (newspaper) 206
Tipperary (county) 154-5, 287
North 155

123, 12830, 1324, 149-51, 153,

155-7, 1625, 1678, 170-1, 173,

176-80, 184, 187, 198, 202, 208,
210, 212-14, 216, 284-5, 28890,

308
Medical School 86, 88-91, 165, 177

South 287

To cure and {o care: memoirs of a
chief medicat officer (hook) 91
Tokyo (archdiocesc) 253
Torca Hill (Dalkey) 59
“Torna' (An 1Ollamh Tadhg & Donnchadha) 70
TGstal, An (annual festival) 146-7
Totemism and exogamy (book) 227

University

College,

Dublin

124,

150-2, 154, 156, 158, 160.7, 1749,
18191, 194, 1978, 212, 307
Bill (1960) 161, 167-8
University College, Galway 50, 88,
151, 135, 162, 1757, 184, 198
University College, Limerick 153

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