Remembering Priest-Catchers
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, November 14, 2008 12:00 PM
“To the citizens of Dublin — Catholic and Protestant — the priest-catcher was the lowest form of life. Once a priest-catcher had been identified, he could never again walk the streets without grave risk to his life.”
So says this article by Frank Hopkins in Ireland’s Herald newspaper about the last of the notorious Irish “priest-catchers” — informants in the 17th and 18th... READ MORE
Filed under catholic persecution, ireland
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