Catholic Ireland – the country that lost at 'moral monopoly'

“A deposit of service overseas seems to have been set aside in a wave of hostility, even loathing.”

Pilgrims on the Bala Pilgrimage, 1952.
PHOTO: ALAMY/TRINITY MIRROR/MIRRORPIX

While some honour the memory of selfless priests and nuns, the Ireland of the past is now excoriated as a dark and violent theocracy.

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