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First Edition. Octavo (15 cm x 21 cm). VIII, 364 pages. Hardcover / Recently restored and rebacked original binding. Excellent condition after the restoration. From the library of Judge James Charles Coffey, with his name signed on the titlepage and dated May, 1860. Some mild foxing to first 10 pages, otherwise very good. Extremely rare publication ! Letters include topics like: "The Character of the Irish Government, and the effect of its measures upon the Country; including remarks on the Peace-preservation Act, or Constabulary Bill, the Burial Service Bill and the Tithe Composition Act / The State and Composition of Parties (Sketch of the Irish Gentry) / The State of Religion and the Character of its Ministers in Ireland / The Administration of Justice and Spirit of the Penal Laws / The Increase of Population - its causes and effects, prevailing errors on this subject / Public Education and to whom it should be intrusted / The Bible Societies - Their Opposition to the interests of Religion and Peace in Ireland / On Catholic Emancipation - On the Papal Power and the Nature of Allegiance and on the Oath and Declaration taken or made by Protestants of the Established Church / On the Disenfranchisement of the Forty-Shilling-Freeholders - How unjust and injurious such a measure would be / On a legal Provision for the Poor - Its practicability and advantages to all classes in Ireland, but especially to the Government // James Warren Doyle, O.E.S.A. (1786 1834) was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin in Ireland, who used the signature "JKL", an acronym from "James Kildare and Leighlin." Doyle was active in the Anti-Tithe movement. A campaigner for Catholic Emancipation up to 1829, he was also an educator, church organiser and the builder of Carlow cathedral. Doyle was born close to New Ross, County Wexford in 1786, the posthumous son of a respectable farmer; his mother (Anne Warren, of Quaker extraction) was living in poverty at the time of his birth. At the age of eleven he witnessed all the horrors of the Battle of New Ross between the United Irishmen and British Crown forces supplemented by the militia and yeomanry. He received his early education at Clonleigh, at Rathconrogue at the school of a Mr. Grace, and later at the Augustinian College, New Ross under the care of an Augustinian monk, Rev. John Crane. Doyle joined the Augustinian friars in 1805 at Grantstown, County Wexford and then studied for his doctorate at Coimbra in Portugal (1806 08). His studies were disturbed by the Peninsular War, during which he served as a sentry in Coimbra. Later, he accompanied the British Army with Wellington's forces to Lisbon as an interpreter. Following Doyle's return to Ireland, he was ordained to the priesthood on 1 October 1809, at Enniscorthy. He taught logic at the Augustinian College, New Ross. In 1813, Doyle was appointed to a professorship at Carlow College, holding the Chair of Rhetoric and in 1814, the Professorship of Theology. Michael Corcoran, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, died on 22 February 1819. Doyle was a popular choice of the clergy and bishops of the Archdiocese of Dublin and was chosen by the Holy See as Corcoran's successor. He was formally named in August 1819 and was duly consecrated in Carlow Parish Church on 14 November. During his fifteen-year tenure as Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Doyle earned respect nationwide for his polemics in furtherance of the Catholic position in both Irish and British society, and in supporting the work of the Catholic Association. His books on pastoral, political, educational and inter-denominational matters provide a rich source of material for social and religious historians (see below). He was a close ally of Daniel O'Connell in the political campaign for Catholic Emancipation which was finally passed in 1829 by the Wellington government. Tithe - War: In 1830, the new tithe-proctor of Graigue (a parish of 4,779 Catholics and 63 Protestants) decided to break with t. Seller Inventory # 29464AB
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