In 1935 to be Catholic was to be Irish, and the hierarchy ruled its flock with a firm doctrinal hand and an unchallenged tribal authority - no one more so than Daniel Mannix, the venerable Cork-born ...

Paris, 18 April 1921 - Archbishop Daniel Mannix has arrived in Paris after meeting with Pope Benedict XV. At a dinner on 14 April hosted by a number of Irishmen in the city, Mannix revealed that ...