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The Boycott at Fethard-on-Sea, 1957 - A Study in Catholic-Protestant Relations in Modern Ireland (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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The Boycott at Fethard-on-Sea, 1957 - A Study in Catholic-Protestant Relations in Modern Ireland (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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This book examines the boycott of the Protestant community of
Fethard-on-Sea, County Wexford, Ireland, by local Catholics because
of a dispute over a mixed marriage. Sheila Cloney, a member of the
Church of Ireland, refused to have her two children educated in the
local Catholic National School, in accordance with promises she had
made before she married her Catholic husband, Sean Cloney. Rather
than submit to pressure being put on her by the local Catholic
clergy, she took her children to Belfast and then to Scotland. It
was alleged that local Protestants had assisted her and, as a
result, a boycott of local Protestant businesses was instituted to
secure the return of the children. The boycott began in May 1957
and lasted until September of the same year. The drama, which
combined personal, religious and political elements, was to be
played out in the law courts of Belfast, the pulpits of the land,
in the Dail and Senate, but especially in the boycotted shops and
Protestant school of Fethard. The incident attracted a great deal
of attention in Northern Ireland, and was furiously debated in the
Stormont Parliament and on the Orange fields of the Twelfth.
International interest was also considerable, with Time magazine
suggesting a new word for the English language - fethardism,
meaning to practise boycott along religious lines. The great
figures of the 1950s in Church and State became involved, as a
local incident attracted attention at home and abroad. This book
recounts the events of the Fethard boycott, situating them in the
broader context of Catholic-Protestant relations since the
foundation of the state. This is more than a dramatic, human tale -
this story highlights how the independent Irish state treated a
religious minority and how that minority responded to the crisis.
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