Irish Catholics and Secret Societies

...next day on May 15.[16] Over 5,000 people crammed the Academy with another 10,000 outside trying to hear the fiery speech. It would not be until December that Moriarty would seek forgiveness and be regranted his faculties by Wood.[17] Letter to Archbishop Wood from J.F. Shanahan, 04/19/1876, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8439 Archbishop Wood

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An “Un-American Invention”?: Catholics and the Issue of Prohibition

...ption for The Religious Use of Wine,” Brooklyn Law Review, vol. 70, issue 3, 2005, 746. [2] John A Ryan, Prohibition: Yes or No, (New York: The Paulist Press), 1. [3] Thomas Ryan, “Supporters and Opponents of Prohibition,” The Annals of Iowa, vol. 46, no. 7, Winter 1983, 517. [4]

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Online Exhibits

...Omeka Exbihits Cartooning Catholics Philly in Focus...

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