THE DEATH has taken place in Co Wexford of Sheila 
Cloney, the woman at the centre of the infamous 1957 Fethard-on-Sea boycott of Protestants. Ms Cloney, who was 83, died in hospital on Sunday.A member of the Church of Ireland, her decision 52 years ago to flee her Catholic husband and the State rather than allow her children to be educated at the local Catholic national school led to a boycott of Protestant businesses in the south Co Wexford village.
The issue was debated in the Dáil where the boycott was condemned by Eamon de Valera who was taoiseach at the time. The boycott was also widely denounced by Northern Protestants during Orange marches in 1957.
The case attracted considerable national and international media attention with Time magazine coining the word “fethardism” which it claimed meant: “to practise boycott along religious lines”.
Although Ms Cloney herself shunned publicity, two years before his death, Mr Cloney spoke about the events of 1957 to The Irish Times. He recalled that his wife had resented being pressurised by the Catholic priest who had told her: “Eileen’s going to the local Catholic school and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
Sheila (née Kelly) and Seán Cloney, a Catholic, had both grown up in Fethard-on-Sea near Hook Head. They were married in London in 1949 at an Augustinian Church in Hammersmith followed by a blessing in an Anglican Church. She apparently undertook to accept a Catholic rule – based on the 1908 papal decree “Ne Temere” – which stipulated that children of mixed marriages should be raised as Catholics.
He explained the couple’s eventual resolution of the controversy: “Whether they went to a Protestant or a Catholic school would be seen as a victory for one side or the other and we could not sanction that. So they never went to school and we educated them ourselves.”
A film about the case called A Love Divided , starring Orla Brady and Liam Cunningham as the couple, was released in 1999.
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Holy ****!
Waarmee het bewijs geleverd werd dat een priester zoenen niet altijd kerkelijk seksueel misbruik is.
toevoeging 1-7:
2006 4:10 1e geboorte buiten huwelijk
1959 roughly 2%.
2006 1/3 geboorten buiten huwelijk
studie 1996 to 2006: 23 % burgerlijke huwelijken
! In 1996, there were 928 civil marriages (6%) in Ireland.
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