- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Mercier Press (13 Jan 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1856356159
- ISBN-13: 978-1856356152
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The selection of the Mayo county librarian in 1930 should have been uneventful. It was hardly a crucial post and should have been a routine appointment, yet the choice led to a conflict that had national consequences. It set church against state, county council against government department and even members of the same political party against each other.In July 1930, Letitia Dunbar Harrison was chosen by an interview panel for the post of Mayo county librarian. However, Mayo County Council refused to endorse her appointment, defying a specific instruction from the Local Government Department. Such was the heat generated by the dispute that it almost brought down the Cumann na nGaedheal government. Why would such a seemingly minor appointment drive a government to the brink and set church and state against each other so heavily? Letitia was a Protestant and a Trinity graduate, and thus considered unsuitable for a public post in a large Catholic county.
About the Author
Pat Walsh is a Librarian with Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Library Service. Originally from Mayo, he now lives and works in Dun Laoghaire He was intrigued by the story of the Mayo Librarian when he discovered it was one of the few occasions that libraries made national news in Ireland. The result of his research is this fascinating book.
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In the early 1930's Ireland was still working it's way through it's issues. The people in charge were still working out how the new state was going to shape itself and bloody-minded Civil War politics were still shaping some of the ideologies and motivations of the main players.Letitia Dunbar Harrison was appointed to Mayo as their first Librarian but was Protestant, going to a County with a vast Catholic majority, without good Irish as well, she became a hotbed of contraversy and a bone of contention that was well-chewed over. Pat Walsh is a Librarian, speaking of a librarian and of a history that is now quite alien to most Irish people. But it could still happen in this country. Just change the religion. It could happen in any country! He doesn't really go into much other than the facts. One of the very interesting facts is that Letitia almost became, after her marriage and widowhood, the first Methodist Woman Minister.
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In the early 1930's Ireland was still working it's way through it's issues. The people in charge were still working out how the new state was going to shape itself and bloody-minded Civil War politics were still shaping some of the ideologies and motivations of the main players.Letitia Dunbar Harrison was appointed to Mayo as their first Librarian but was Protestant, going to a County with a vast Catholic majority, without good Irish as well, she became a hotbed of contraversy and a bone of contention that was well-chewed over. Pat Walsh is a Librarian, speaking of a librarian and of a history that is now quite alien to most Irish people. But it could still happen in this country. Just change the religion. It could happen in any country! He doesn't really go into much other than the facts. One of the very interesting facts is that Letitia almost became, after her marriage and widowhood, the first Methodist Woman Minister. |
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