RT Article T1 Church and State in Ireland in the Nineteenth Century JF Church history VO 31 SP 294 OP 306 A1 Larkin, Emmet J. 1927-2012 LA English PB Cambridge University Press YR 1962 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/596366361 AB I should first like to refer to some documents which I found during my research this summer in the Propaganda Archives in Rome. Then, I should like to show how they help towards a better understanding of the very complicated historical relation between Church and State in Ireland in the nineteenth century. The first of these documents is a series of three letters from an Irish priest to his agent in Rome in January, 1823, concerning the impending appointment of a new Archbishop to the See of Cashel. The second is a long letter from the Bishop of Elphin to the Cardinal Prefect of Propaganda, in February,1826,protesting the charges leveled against him at Rome by the Augustinians of his diocese. These two men, priest and bishop, peasant and aristocrat, represent the essential faces of the clergy in Ireland in the nineteenth century. More often than not, however, the priest or the bishop was not simply the one or the other, but rather an interestingly complex amalgam of these two representative types. Their letters, then, tell us a great deal not only about the Church in their time, but give us historical insight into the Church of their posterity. K1 Verhältnis Staat-Kirche K1 Jahrhundert, 19 K1 Irland K1 church-state relations K1 century, 19th K1 Ireland DO 10.2307/3163321