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Article Published February 12, 2002
County Mayo (Ireland): An Outline History
By: Bernard O'Hara and Nollaig ÓMuraíle,
Copyright: Mayo Ireland Ltd.
Mayo before the Great Famine
The early decades of the 19th century saw a new outbreak of agrarian
agitation with the rise of the 'Ribbon Societies' in Connacht. These sought
to protect tenants against eviction by landlords who wished to clear their
lands for grazing - to avail of the high prices for cattle prevailing in the
years immediately after the Napoleonic Wars. Ribbonism had a strong
sectarian tinge, being influenced by inflammatory pamphlets which were
widely circulated at the time and which predicted the imminent overthrow of
'the Reformation'.
Sectarian tensions were further increased in this period by the activities
of evangelical Protestant missionaries seeking to 'redeem the Irish poor
from the errors of Popery. One of the best-known missions of this kind was
that founded at Dugort, in Achill, in 1831 by a Meathman, the Rev. Edward
Nangle. The activities of the missionaries and bible societies were strongly
disapproved of by many, perhaps most, of the clergy of the Established
Church, but they received important encouragement from two successive
Protestant bishops of Tuam. Their staunchest opponent was the Mayo-born
Catholic archbishop of Tuam, John MacHale, a supporter of Daniel O'Connell,
a promoter of the Irish language, and a sturdy polemicist, who died at the
age of ninety in 1881.
These too were the years of the campaign for Catholic Emancipation and,
later, for the abolition of the tithes which a predominately Catholic
population was forced to pay for the upkeep of the clergy of the Established
Church.
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