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Walter Kirwan
Walter Blake Kirwan (1754–1805) was an Irish priest of the Church of Ireland and a noted preacher. Born in Gort, County Galway in 1754 and raised a Roman Catholic, he studied in the Jesuit school St. Omer's College, intending to study for the priesthood. Aged 17 he went to St Croix, in the West Indies, then a Danish colony, where his father's cousin was a wealthy businessman. Kirwan reportedly disagreed with slavery and did not like the climate so he returned to Europe. On the advice of his maternal uncle, the Roman Catholic Primate of Ireland, Archbishop Anthony Blake he went to the University of Louvain, completing his studies for the priesthood with distinction, and following ordination in 1777, he held the chair of Moral and Natural Philosophy. After leaving Louvain he went to London.Walter Blake Kirwan
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Church Of Ireland
The Church of Ireland (, ; , ) is a Christian church in Ireland, and an autonomy, autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. It is organised on an all-Ireland basis and is the Christianity in Ireland, second-largest Christian church on the island after the Catholic Church in Ireland, Roman Catholic Church. Like other Anglican churches, it has retained elements of pre-Reformation practice, notably its episcopal polity, while rejecting the papal primacy, primacy of the pope. In theological and liturgical matters, it incorporates many principles of the Reformation, particularly those of the English Reformation, but self-identifies as being both Protestantism, Reformed and Catholicity, Catholic, in that it sees itself as the inheritor of a continuous tradition going back to the founding of Celtic Christianity, Christianity in Ireland. As with other members of the global Anglican communion, individual parishes accommodate differing approaches to the level of ritual and formality ...
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Kirwan House
Kirwan House or The Female Orphan House was a Church of Ireland-run female orphanage in Dublin, Ireland initially located at 42 Prussia Street (1790-93), then on the North Circular Road (1793-1959) and finally at 134 Sandford Road in Ranelagh (1959-87). Since 1991, Kirwan House has operated as a Trust Fund to award bursaries to assist in the education of children who were Church of Ireland or of other Reformed Faith/Protestant Churches in Ireland, who were in need. History ''The Female Orphan Society'' was established in Dublin, in 1790 and is one of Ireland's oldest extant charities, incorporated in one of the last acts of the Irish Parliament before the Act of Union in 1800. "Destitute Girls" (whose both parents were deceased) were placed in the home, and were instructed in the Protestant faith and were trained to be domestic servants. ''The Female Orphan House'' was founded by Mrs. Ann Tighe and Mrs. Margaret Este (who died in 1791 and was succeeded by Elizabeth La To ...
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18th-century Irish Anglican Priests
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1805 Deaths
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1754 Births
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Christian Clergy From County Galway
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Academic Staff Of The Old University Of Leuven
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Old University Of Leuven Alumni
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Edward Burton (priest)
Edward Edmund Burton (1737-1817) was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Burton was born in County Galway and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was appointed Prebendary of Kilmeen then Faldown at Tuam Cathedral in 1768. in 1771 he became Archdeacon of Tuam and Vicar general of the diocese. from 1795 until 1796; and Dean of Killala The Dean of Killala is based at the Cathedral Church of St Patrick, Killala in the Diocese of Killala within the united bishopric of Tuam, Killala and Achonry of the Church of Ireland. The Cathedral Church of St Crumnathy, Achonry, was closed i ..."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. p81: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 from then until his death in 1817. Notes Alumni of Trinity College Dublin 18th-century Irish Anglican priests 19th-century Irish Anglican priests Deans of Killala Archdeacons of Tuam 1817 deaths 1737 births {{Irelan ...
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Thomas Thompson (priest)
Thomas Thompson (8 July 1756 – 10 November 1799) was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the 18th century. Thompson was born in County Mayo; and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was Dean of Killala The Dean of Killala is based at the Cathedral Church of St Patrick, Killala in the Diocese of Killala within the united bishopric of Tuam, Killala and Achonry of the Church of Ireland. The Cathedral Church of St Crumnathy, Achonry, was closed i ... from 1791-1796 until his death."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. pp80/81: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 Notes 1756 births 1799 deaths 18th-century Irish Anglican priests Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Deans of Killala {{Ireland-Anglican-dean-stub ...
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