M T PA PAL I N T R I GU ES AGAINST IRISH LIB ERT Y FROM H rri n IV D XIII d a . to ec . BY A MA IRE J MES G. GU , - EX J UDGE T HE SUPE I C OURT SAN A NC I SC C A LI NI A . OF R OR OF FR O . FOR T H I RD ED IT I O N. SAN FRANCISCO B AME . ARRY S 429 . j H , MONTGOMERY STREET 1 890 . Ifle la fl d a nd T he Po e p . A BRIEF HIST O RY OF PAPAL I NT R I GU ES AGAINST IRISH LIB ERT Y FROM H rfi n IV III . o X d a t . BY AMES G. MAGUIRE J , J UDGE T HE SUPE I C OURT SAN A NC I SC C A LI NI A OF R OR OF FR O , FOR . ' T /z R s r f must be be d e e e zp o ye . A D INA . C R L SIMEONI J . A e y , u in fl They can crush s as ages own. ’ What to them is a nation s angui sh ” more Nothing than a dying groan . UNA . OF T B l l SAN FRANCISCO R Y Y . B 429 . JAMES H A R , MONTGOMER STREET 1 888 . D D CA O N E I T I . To the heroes who , in spite of popes and kings , on r ish poured their blood the altar of I liberty , and fl thus kept alive the patriot ame , through the long ’ centuries of I rel and s night of slavery ; and to all the living priests and people who believe that I re land ’ s struggle for liberty should not be postponed to await the pleasure of any foreign potentate , this book is affectionately dedicated . T HE A UTHOR. C O NT E NTS. Dedication Preface — Chapter I Introduction — II Bull of Adrian IV III—T h P II nd th S e Bull of ope Al exander I . a e ynod of Cashel — IV Humiliating the Iri sh Priests and People — V Papal I nterferenc e with Iri sh Struggles for Lib erty after the Conquest — VI T he Religious Wars — VII ASop to Cerb erus VIII—T h R M k R e ep eal ovement ill ed by a escript . — IX T he Y oung Ireland Movement k illed by Bi shop s and Pri ests — X T he Fenian Movement Opp osed by the Church — XI T he Home Rule Movement Opp osed by the Chur ch — XII T he Land League Opposed by the Pop e X II—T h L R I e ast escript . — XIV P n of m n and y tt vs. R k Rent la Ca paig Bo co ac , Evi ction and Rules of Estate ’ XV—P Le s t on Dr McGl nn ope o Boyco t . y — — XVI Vatican Politics the Italian Ring — XVII Conclus ion Li st of Authorities — Appendi x A Full translation of the Bull of Pep e Adr ian IV granting Ireland to King H enry II — App endix B Full translation of the Bul l of Pope Alexander III c nfir m n the nt of n . o i g gra Adria —T h text Of h st R Appendix C e t e la escript . 0 17 T r y P R FAC E E . This book is written to suppl y what I conceive to be not only a demand but a real necessity . I ts purpose is to show the wrong and injustice of papal interference with the struggles of the I rish people to regain the national independence which they lost through the treachery of an E nglish pope . T o show the extent , persistence and deadly character of that interference . And to point out the necessity , and the patriotic duty of firmly and constantly rejecting and resist ing every political edict , issued by a pope or inqui s itio n , respecting I rish affairs . I am painfully aware of the extreme difficulty , if not impossibility, of exposing and condemning the political errors and faults of one who is the spiritual head of a church , without working some injury to the church which he represents . T o the delicacy and difficulty of this position , I attribute the otherwise remarkable circumstance that the very interesting and important facts herein set forth have never before been presented l in any col ected or connected form . But the occasion demands that those facts be now given to the world fully and fairly, without or h either malice timidity . W atever the reader 6 PREFACE . may think of the conclusions , which I have freely l and candid y stated , he will find the statements of fact to be reliable and can readily verify all the more important of them by referring to the author ities which I have fully cited . I conceive it to be a most marvel ous record of an alliance of centuries , which has been characterized I f cons uu u s hn s ahh co nfidence o n n and p and , one side , and equally constant duplicity , ingratitude and tyranny on the other . T o the ultramontanes who may read this book and whose stereotyped criticism I may now fairl y anticipate , I have but to say , that it is not my fault that the spiritual heads of the Catholic Church claim also to be , by divine right, temporal rulers , theoretically , over all nations , and in ter rible reality over I reland . I t is not my fault , but more shame to them , if the publication of the political history which [key have made , shall disadvantage the church whose Spiritual interests were confided to them , an d should have been their first and constant care; On this subject I can onl y add that I am not i n the business of proselyting and disclaim any such purpose . I speak neither as a friend nor as an enemy of the t Ca holic religion , and have said not a word con cerning its doctrines , its principles , its sacraments or its forms . T he truth. or falsity , the soundness or u nsou nd ness of the articles and rules of faith of that r eli PREFACE . 7 ' gion have nothing to do with I reland s right to in dependent nationality or to H ome Rule . I desire , above all things , to separate those two questions by a wide and unmistakable l ine , and to distinguish , as well as I may , between the dual —religious and political— capacities which the Pope , unfortunately, occupies . I speak as an American descendant of the I rish race ; as an admirer of the I rish character ; as a sympathizer in the struggles and trials of the I rish people and in their hereditary aspirations for liberty . That a man may be a good Catholic and at the s o same time an I rish patriot , seven centuries of “ f called sedition , in which the people were o ten ‘ ks ar a so an om . led by their gg , attest That a man may reject the tenets of the C atho lic religion and yet be an equally good I rish : l patriot . bear witness Grattan , Emmet , Wo fe M Tone , Davis , itchel , Parnell , and all the brave leaders and soldiers of Protestant faith , who , for hav raced the more than a century , eg and glorified political and m ilitary struggles for I rish liberty . While I believe and declare that religi on has and should have nothing to do with I rish poli tics , I have , in writing this book , a purpose which the publ ic mind will not wholly disconnect from religion , principally because the art and finesse of rel igio -political I talian statesmanship have so interwoven questions of religion and politics . ’ That purpose is to assist ‘ in raising my father s 8 PREFACE . countrymen and my own kinsmen above that v gro eling fear of the Pope , which makes so many of them nerveless when he strikes a bl owat their country and their race , and above their present discreditable co nfidence in men who have “ proved themselves the veriest slaves of treach ery . There is no other people on earth that the Pope would treat as he is treating , or as he has treated , the I rish ; and this is simpl y because there is n o other people on earth— not“ even one of the hal f — I ndian states of S outh America that would tol ca crate such politi l interference at his hands . The Pope , in this respect , enjoys the unenviable , n dan er ou s not to say infamous , distinctio of being g n de nne only to Mose wno co fi in i . I confidently expect that my work will meet with the approval not only of I rish patriots , of all shades of religious l belief, but that it wi l be acceptable to the think ing Catholics of every country , who cannot fail to realize how greatly the true interests of the C atho l ic Church would be advanced by relieving it of the incubus of pol itical iht rig ue against wh ich my blows are aimed . AME M . j S G . AGUIRE th 1 8 8 8 San Francisco , june 4 , . O F T H E C HAP TE R I . INTRODUCTION . The H oly Father must have been misinformed by evil advisers , or he would never have taken sides with English tyranny and landlord robbery against our sorely oppressed and long suffering ” people , said a devout Catholic and brave but dis heartened I rish patriot to me a few days since .