Denis Gwynn
Biographic Data
| ID | 960969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denis Gwynn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denis |
| FAMILY NAME | Gwynn |
| SIGNATURE | GWYNN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Parasitology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1920 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1933 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Challenge to de Valera
Essay| December 01 1933 The Challenge to de Valera Denis Gwynn Denis Gwynn The writer of this article is the author of a dozen books, mainly on Catholic and Irish affairs, the latest being De Valera, published in New York by E. P. Dutton & Co. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1933) 39 (3): 315–326. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1933.39.3.315 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & table…
Charles Kendal Bushe
Among all the vivid characters which Ireland produced during Grattan's Parliament and the following decades, the memory of Charles Kendal Bushe retains a singular freshness and gracious charm. His chief fame was as an orator and a pleader in the law courts. Charles Lever has paid tribute, in his Jack Hinton, to 'the elegance of manner and classical perfection of wit that made Bushe the Cicero of his nation.' Outside of Ireland his fame is less wi…
Daniel O'Connell and Ellen Courtenay
Ellen Courtenay's ultimatum to O'Connell, declaring that she had received promises of assistance from 'many persons,' and that 'it would make her fortune' to denounce him publicly, was posted to O'Gorman Mahon, the young Member of Parliament for County Clare, at the end of February, 1831. It was exactly a year later that, in the Fleet Prison in London, she added the date to the last footnote to the pamphlet, which was published and at once broadc…
The Revival of Daniel O'Connell
If a year ago anyone had ventured to predict that the name of Daniel O'Connell could have aroused real national enthusiasm in Ireland, and among the Irish population of Great Britain, even in connection with the centenary of Catholic Emancipation, he would almost certainly have been told with complete conviction that O'Connell's popularity in Ireland was dead for all time. Yet the demonstrations during the past few months in Ireland especially ha…
France and the Holy See
At a meeting of the French Academy in Paris at the end of November, two pronouncements were made concerning the renewal of diplomatic relations between France and the Holy See which are so remarkable that they deserve quotation in some detail. The occasion was of unusual importance, for it coincided with the recent troubles in French politics which had compelled M. Poincaré to reconstruct his Government, as the result of attacks by the Radical Pa…
Charles Butler and His Friends
It will be very regrettable if, in this centenary year of Catholic Emancipation, some one competent does not undertake to write a Life of Charles Butler. The full story of his work for the advancement of the English Catholics should illuminate the whole condition of the Church in England in the last critical years of the penal laws, when an increasing number of Catholic families had abandoned the Faith, and when the prevailing philosophical tende…
Sinn Fein and the I.R.B
From several books which have been published in the past few years, it has become possible to understand more clearly one of the most remarkable mysteries in the history of Irish political agitation. The full truth will probably never be known, though it concerns the whole subsequent development of Irish history. To any student of politics, the growth of the Sinn Fein agitation must always be a fascinating and perplexing problem. And the more rec…
Sir Robert Peel and O'Connell
When Sir Robert Peel, as leader of the House of Commons in the Duke of Wellington's administration, dramatically resigned his seat for Oxford University in the spring of 1829 to obtain its approval for his change of front in regard to the concession of Catholic Emancipation, he was ignominiously rejected for his constituency at the very time when O'Connell had been triumphantly returned for Clare. Peel's defeat was the climax of a long conflict b…
The Church and Politics in Alsace
Several pronouncements by Mgr. Ruch, the Bishop of Strasburg, within the past few weeks, have drawn attention to one of the most intricate and difficult problems of the Church in France since the War. Without attempting to present the whole problem that is involved, it is of considerable interest to note the attitude which has been adopted by the 'patriot Bishop of Strasburg,' whose conduct during the trying years since the War has shown him to b…
The Coming Elections in France
As the time for the general elections in France at the end of April approaches, the Catholics are once again faced with a situation of real anxiety; and several recent indications of the attitude which they are adopting in regard to the elections deserve close attention. There is no denying the seriousness of the danger to which the Church may be exposed if the elections should produce results at all resembling those of four years ago-when the Bl…
Kevin O'Higgins
It has been the fate of a long line of patriotic young Irishmen since the days of the Act of Union to be cut short in the best promise of their youth; snatched away dramatically and suddenly in a crisis, they have left a memory which has, in all probability, been more cherished than if they had lived to a more mature age. Robert Emmet, Wolfe Tone, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, have through generations been the romantic figures of modern Irish history. …
The French Catholic Counter-Attack
In an article in Blackfriars some months back, describing the circumstances that led up to the condemnation of the Action Frangaise by Cardinal Andrieu, which has since been followed by a formal promulgation by the Pope of the condemnation of the Action Frangaise which was decided upon early in 1914, I quoted the opinion of certain French Catholics who believed that the condemnation would, after a difficult tussle, result in a great strengthening…
The Abbé Bergey
To be the parish priest of St. Emilion-that home of a great vintage whose name is more ruthlessly profaned than that of almost any other in the cheaper English restaurants-is in itself a picturesque and interesting title. But the Abbe Bergey, who is in fact the cure of that famous little town, is far more picturesque and interesting than his title. There has been nothing like his incursion into French politics within modern memory ; and in France…
Sir Mark Sykes and the Middle East
For those Catholics who have always been fascinated by the part played by the late Sir Mark Sykes, and other of his colleagues who were very definitely Catholic in their outlook upon foreign affairs, in connection with British policy in the Middle East during the war, the two volumes of Miss Gertrude Bell's Letters will have aroused hopes of enlightenment upon several problems and paradoxes. It must be said at once that in this respect the two la…
Slidelights on the Action Francaise Controversy
The 'Action Francaise' Condemnation
A French Catholic who holds a very influential position in the Catholic movement expressed to me a few weeks ago such strong views on the recent condemnation of the Action Francaise by Cardinal Andrieu, and subsequently by the Pope himself, that the gist of his argument is worth placing on record. He attached so much importance to the crisis which has been precipitated by the Cardinal's condemnation that he believed it to mark the beginning of a …
A British Ambassador and the Vatican
English public men very seldom make any public allusion to the activities of the Holy See. Very few of them give much attention either to its influence or to its policies. Sir Rennell Rodd, however, as British Ambassador to Rome from 1908 until 1919, had ample opportunities for becoming aware of the Pope's existence as an international force. And in his latest volume of reminiscences, which cover the whole period of the war, he discreetly reveals…
The French Hierarchy and the Franc
Not the least embarrassment of the French bishops, in the present political crisis of France, has been to decide whether Catholics should be called upon to forget the constant annoyance and petty persecution to which they are still subjected-even since the fall of M. Herriot's deliberately anti-Catholic Government-and to respond generously to all appeals made by the Government, as though the union sacrée which M. Herriot brought to an end were st…
Reconciliation in Ireland
The cartoon with which Punch expressed its bewildered opinion of the Irish settlement deserves to be remembered in history. After more than two centuries of deliberate exploitation of anti-Irish sentiment in the north-east of Ireland, the leader of the Ulster Unionists is represented in the most characteristic organ of British middle-class opinion, as uniting with the President of the Free State to pick the pocket of John Bull. In actual fact, th…
France's New Government and the Church
Writing some months ago in this review on the probable attitude of the new French Government towards the Catholic Church, I ventured to anticipate that the first action of the new government would be to declare its hostility to the Church at the outset by undertaking to abolish the recently re-established Embassy at the Vatican. The Embassy has not yet been withdrawn, but the new Government in fact lost no time in announcing its intention of abol…
Will France Go Anti-Clerical Again
The result of the French general elections has been to overthrow not only M. Poincare, who had the goodwill of the great Catholic soldiers like Foch and Castelnau and Gouraud and Mangin, but also M. Millerand, who has been particularly connected with the restoration of diplomatic relations with the Vatican. They are now replaced by a group of politicians who have been regarded by those Catholic generals, and by most French nationalists, as their …
Divorce Law in France
Divorce was unknown in France until the Revolution. But the exponents of the new gospel of Liberty and Equality soon discovered that the system of indissoluble marriage was logically incompatible with their fundamental principles. And so in 1792, the Legislative Assembly decided, after three minutes of discussion, that' the right to divorce was a necessary corollary of individual liberty, which could not permit of any indissoluble tie.' On this p…
Mr. Harold Cox and Compulsory Sterilisation
To the Editor of Blackfriars
The Church in France and the Ruhr
In her decision to seize the Ruhrland, France has committed herself to a course which leaves her practically no possibility of turning back. The gravity of her decision is already appreciated throughout the country, and the Press is busy exhorting all classes of the population to pay no heed to criticism of French policy and to face the trials which she has chosen to encounter with unflinching resolution and with a determination to rely solely up…
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What is Happening in Ireland
What causes most despair to anyone who tries to persuade people in England of the real state of affairs in Ireland is the answer that invariably follows every attempt to overcome a deep-rooted incredulity, that "we can do nothing until you Irishmen agree among yourselves." One of the impressions that affected me most strongly on returning to Ireland after an absence of four years, was that of a unanimity among all classes such as has never existe…
The Problem of Depopulation in France
For years before the war the falling birth-rate in France was recognized as the most serious social and economic problem that threatened the future of the country. The war, with its death-roll of nearly a million and a quarter young Frenchmen, to say nothing of the tens of thousands of others who are maimed for life and rendered incapable of providing for the maintenance of families, has enormously increased the gravity of the problem. But apart …
French Opinion on the Irish Situation
Lady Sykes in her paper on The Deadlock in Ireland, in the April issue of Blackfriars, said that the Government, in its Irish policy, is treading a path that "will inevitably, if continued, end in the breaking-up of our great Empire." A patriotic Irishman, faced with the present attitude of the Government towards Ireland cannot reasonably be expected to grow sentimental about the break-up of the Empire. Any Irishman who cares for the welfare of h…
The Catholic Revival in France
Prejudices die hard, and I suppose the idea still prevails abroad that France is an irreligious, if not actually an anti-Catholic, country. Living in France after the war, it is a continual source of astonishment that such an impression should ever have arisen at all. I know, for instance, a very shrewd old French lady, the wife of a deputé for a Southern constituency, who regards Paris as a religious centre second in importance only to Rome itse…
Rebuilding the Ruined Churches of France
With the beginning of Lent the bishops of nine of the French dioceses in the devastated districts issued an appeal to the public for a loan of 200 million francs. The experiment is in itself a very considerable contribution to solving the problem of reconstruction in the Regions Libérées.Of the twelve dioceses which suffered partial or complete devastation in the war only nine are included in the list of co-operative reconstruction societies in w…
The Jeanne d'Arc Celebrations in Paris
The celebration of Jeanne d'Arc's festival as that of the great patron saint of modern France has been more remarkable than ever this year. It was only last year that the French Government decided for the first time to take part officially in the celebrations ; and those who now proudly claim the credit of having restored France's national Saint to her due place of honour had for many years to contest even their right to display her banners in th…
Catholic Organisation in Brittany
More than any other part of France, Brittany has a distinct existence apart from the rest. Its old Celtic language is still spoken habitually among the working people over a great part of its western departments, while in St. Malo, and further east still to the very borders of Normandy, Breton is still the native language of a considerable proportion of the older people, who as often as not are quite illiterate, although in the best sense of the …
Mr. Harold Cox and Compulsory Sterilisation
To the Editor of Blackfriars
The Church in France and the Ruhr
In her decision to seize the Ruhrland, France has committed herself to a course which leaves her practically no possibility of turning back. The gravity of her decision is already appreciated throughout the country, and the Press is busy exhorting all classes of the population to pay no heed to criticism of French policy and to face the trials which she has chosen to encounter with unflinching resolution and with a determination to rely solely up…
France and Birth Control
In his new study of The Problem of Population, Mr. Harold Cox presents the popular case for birth-control with his customary lucidity and with that command of statistics that can compel conviction for any argument. But one rubs one's eyes with amazement to find so stalwart a champion of individual liberty carried, by his enthusiasm for what he regards as the moral duty of birth-control, into advocating the most intolerable of all forms of State i…
Catholic and Protestant Economics
The title of Dr. O'Brien's new volume is somewhat misleading. The immense research which he has here condensed into less than two hundred pages is concerned, not with a description of the practical effects of the Reformation in breaking down the social and economic life of the Middle Ages, but 'exclusively with the effects of the Reformation on economic thought and theory.' He disclaims all intention of writing history, on the ground that it woul…
Sir Mark Sykes and Ireland
It has not been the least of the minor factors in the Anglo-Irish tragedy that the old Catholic families of England have almost all been strongly opposed by tradition to the claims of Irish nationalism. This constant divergence of views and sympathies between the Catholics of the two countries has in recent years produced incidents that will not easily be forgotten on either side. Irish Catholics can scarcely be expected ever to admit any excuse …
France's New Government and the Church
Writing some months ago in this review on the probable attitude of the new French Government towards the Catholic Church, I ventured to anticipate that the first action of the new government would be to declare its hostility to the Church at the outset by undertaking to abolish the recently re-established Embassy at the Vatican. The Embassy has not yet been withdrawn, but the new Government in fact lost no time in announcing its intention of abol…
Will France Go Anti-Clerical Again
The result of the French general elections has been to overthrow not only M. Poincare, who had the goodwill of the great Catholic soldiers like Foch and Castelnau and Gouraud and Mangin, but also M. Millerand, who has been particularly connected with the restoration of diplomatic relations with the Vatican. They are now replaced by a group of politicians who have been regarded by those Catholic generals, and by most French nationalists, as their …
Divorce Law in France
Divorce was unknown in France until the Revolution. But the exponents of the new gospel of Liberty and Equality soon discovered that the system of indissoluble marriage was logically incompatible with their fundamental principles. And so in 1792, the Legislative Assembly decided, after three minutes of discussion, that' the right to divorce was a necessary corollary of individual liberty, which could not permit of any indissoluble tie.' On this p…
The 'Action Francaise' Condemnation
A French Catholic who holds a very influential position in the Catholic movement expressed to me a few weeks ago such strong views on the recent condemnation of the Action Francaise by Cardinal Andrieu, and subsequently by the Pope himself, that the gist of his argument is worth placing on record. He attached so much importance to the crisis which has been precipitated by the Cardinal's condemnation that he believed it to mark the beginning of a …
A British Ambassador and the Vatican
English public men very seldom make any public allusion to the activities of the Holy See. Very few of them give much attention either to its influence or to its policies. Sir Rennell Rodd, however, as British Ambassador to Rome from 1908 until 1919, had ample opportunities for becoming aware of the Pope's existence as an international force. And in his latest volume of reminiscences, which cover the whole period of the war, he discreetly reveals…
The French Hierarchy and the Franc
Not the least embarrassment of the French bishops, in the present political crisis of France, has been to decide whether Catholics should be called upon to forget the constant annoyance and petty persecution to which they are still subjected-even since the fall of M. Herriot's deliberately anti-Catholic Government-and to respond generously to all appeals made by the Government, as though the union sacrée which M. Herriot brought to an end were st…
Reconciliation in Ireland
The cartoon with which Punch expressed its bewildered opinion of the Irish settlement deserves to be remembered in history. After more than two centuries of deliberate exploitation of anti-Irish sentiment in the north-east of Ireland, the leader of the Ulster Unionists is represented in the most characteristic organ of British middle-class opinion, as uniting with the President of the Free State to pick the pocket of John Bull. In actual fact, th…
Kevin O'Higgins
It has been the fate of a long line of patriotic young Irishmen since the days of the Act of Union to be cut short in the best promise of their youth; snatched away dramatically and suddenly in a crisis, they have left a memory which has, in all probability, been more cherished than if they had lived to a more mature age. Robert Emmet, Wolfe Tone, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, have through generations been the romantic figures of modern Irish history. …
The French Catholic Counter-Attack
In an article in Blackfriars some months back, describing the circumstances that led up to the condemnation of the Action Frangaise by Cardinal Andrieu, which has since been followed by a formal promulgation by the Pope of the condemnation of the Action Frangaise which was decided upon early in 1914, I quoted the opinion of certain French Catholics who believed that the condemnation would, after a difficult tussle, result in a great strengthening…
The Abbé Bergey
To be the parish priest of St. Emilion-that home of a great vintage whose name is more ruthlessly profaned than that of almost any other in the cheaper English restaurants-is in itself a picturesque and interesting title. But the Abbe Bergey, who is in fact the cure of that famous little town, is far more picturesque and interesting than his title. There has been nothing like his incursion into French politics within modern memory ; and in France…
Sir Mark Sykes and the Middle East
For those Catholics who have always been fascinated by the part played by the late Sir Mark Sykes, and other of his colleagues who were very definitely Catholic in their outlook upon foreign affairs, in connection with British policy in the Middle East during the war, the two volumes of Miss Gertrude Bell's Letters will have aroused hopes of enlightenment upon several problems and paradoxes. It must be said at once that in this respect the two la…
Slidelights on the Action Francaise Controversy
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