The Fethard-on-Sea Boycott: Ireland 1957 …The Catholic Church … A Small Village … A Mixed Marriage

The Fethard-on-Sea Boycott: Ireland 1957 …The Catholic Church … A Small Village … A Mixed Marriage

Tim Fanning

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FörlagThe Collins Press
ISBN9781848890497

In 1957, Sheila Cloney, Protestant wife of a Catholic farmer, fled from her home near the Wexford village of Fethard-on-Sea with her young daughters after refusing to bow to the demands of the local Catholic clergy to educate them as Catholics. In response, the priests launched a boycott of Fethard'