Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE XVII. ST. MALACHY AND THE SEE OF ARMAGH. THE See of Armagh differs from the See of Dublin in many respects. The See of Dublin claims the primacy of Ireland. The See of Armagh claims the primacy of All Ireland, the little word "all" making the whole difference. The See of Dublin has often contested the chief place with the See of Armagh. The quarrel began, as I showed you in my last lecture, during the time of Danish supremacy. The quarrel continued fierce and bitter all through the time of papal supremacy. Again and again did the archbishops of the two sees appeal to the king and to the pope on this point. Edward VI. made the Dublin prelate the superior. Queen Mary reversed the process, and awarded the primacy to Armagh. Ussher maintained before Strafford the metropolitan and primatial rights of Armagh, and the difference which began in Danish times was not settled till the last century, when the Roman Catholic Primate Macmahon wrote a very exhaustive and conclusive work on the question, since which time Dublin has quietly submitted to the claim of Armagh.1 Armagh, indeed, has one evident point of 1 A learned paper by Ussher on this question will be found in Elrington's edition of his Works, vol. i., Appendix, p. exxix--cxliii. Exactly the same question was raised in England in the eleventh and twelfth centuries between Canterbury and York; see Wilkins, Concilia, Index, s.v. "Eborum." superiority above Dublin. The origin of the Northern See is lost in antiquity. The origin of the Dublin bishopric can be fixed to a year, and that a comparatively modern year. Let" me now trace for you the history of the primatial See so far as we can ascertain it prior to the twelfth century, and then I shall strive to show how it attained its...
