The Tilson Case by David Jameson
David Jameson's The Tilson Case: Church and State in 1950s' Ireland tells the story of one the most extraordinary causes celebre of twentieth-century Ireland, which followed the marriage of Ernest Tilson, a Protestant, to Mary Barnes, a Catholic, in Dublin in 1941. Since this was a mixed marriage and the couple wished to be married in a Catholic church, both were obliged to sign a pledge agreeing to raise any children of the marriage as Catholics. Nine years later, Ernest reneged on that promise when he removed three of his four sons to the Protestant-run Birds' Nest orphanage in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, intending to educate them as Protestants. To recover her sons, Mary took a case to the High Court and won; her husband appealed this ruling in the Supreme Court and lost. Widely reported in newspapers in Ireland, Britain and the United States, this bitterly contested dispute pitted the Catholic and Protestant churches against each other and polarised Ireland along confessional lines.
David Jameson is a Visiting Teaching Fellow in Trinity College Dublin. His most recent article 'Norah Hoult and Temple Lane's Novels of Mixed Marriages in the Early Free State' was published by New Hibernia Review in 2018.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781782055600 |
| ISBN 10 | 1782055606 |
| Title | The Tilson Case |
| Author | David Jameson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cork University Press |
| Year published | 2023-03-31 |
| Number of pages | 0 |
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