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“Commemorating St. Eugene’s Church Dedication amid Denominational Conflicts in Northern Ireland”

Catholic Bishop Donal McKeown will celebrate a service Sunday (April 30) to commemorate the dedication of St. Eugene’s church on May 4, 1873, local media reports. The cornerstone was laid in 1851.

denominational conflicts

Religious conditions in Northern Ireland’s symbolic second largest city have long been tense. Since 1606 the English crown tried to introduce the Reformation in Ireland.

She settled the province of Ulster (Northern Ireland) with Protestant Englishmen and Scots, which was thus developed into an English bridgehead. Catholic landowners were pushed into the inhospitable west of Ireland.

Derry, called Londonderry by London and the Protestant Unionists since 1618, was one of the centers of Irish emigration to the USA in the 18th and 19th centuries. During the Northern Ireland conflict (1969-1998), Derry was one of the centers of bloody conflict.

1975: Secret negotiations between the IRA leadership and the British government lead to a ceasefire from January 1975 to January 1976. This is thwarted by a series of murders by Protestant ultras against Catholic civilians. The IRA responded with retaliatory action.

2023-04-30 05:34:12
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