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View of Celtic Cross on Ynys Llanddwyn Island in Angelsey with Twr Mawr Lighthouse in background landscape
Connie Marshner is the author of the forthcoming book Monastery and High Cross: The Forgotten Eastern Roots of Irish Christianity. She holds a Master’s degree in Gaelic Literature from University College Cork.
Some of my conservative Irish-American friends, who cherish the old romantic myth of The Ould Sod as a place where 1950s culture and Catholicism reigned, in The Quiet Man and Bells of St. Mary’s harmony, ask: How could the Church in Ireland have “allowed” divorce/abortion/same sex marriage? And they assume the Faith is dead in Ireland.