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MacCabe or McCabe (14 February 1816 – 11 February 1885) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin from 1879 until his death and a

from 1882.

Biography

MacCabe's father was a poor shopkeeper. Edward was educated at Father Doyle's School, Arran Quay and in 1861 entered

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, and was ordained priest on 24 June 1839. After his ordination he served successively as curate in Clontarf and in 1853 as administrator at

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, Marlborough Street, in Dublin. He was selected, in 1854, for the see of

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in South Africa. He turned it down as he did not wish to leave Ireland, and in 1856 became parish priest of St. Nicholas Without, in Dublin. D'Alton, Edward. "Edward McCabe." The Catholic Encyclopedia
Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. He was transferred of the united more parish of

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(then called Kingstown), Monkstown and

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, from 1865 until 1879, and became a member of the

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and

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. For the twelve following years his was the ordinary life of a pastor. In 1877 he was appointed

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of Gadara and

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, and on the death of Paul Cardinal Cullen, the incumbent Archbishop, he was chosen in 1879 to be Cullen's successor. Three years later, on 27 March 1882,

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created him Cardinal-Priest of S. Sabina. His pastoral letter in October 1881 denounced in fierce terms the ''

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'' of the

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; thus his return from Rome with the "red hat" almost went un-noticed. The six years in which he was Archbishop of Dublin were troubled times in Ireland, the years of the Land League and of the National League, of violent agitation and savage coercion, when secret societies were strong in Dublin, and the

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and many others of less note were committed. On Sunday 4 January 1880, a collection was made in aid of the distressed districts of Ireland at chapels in the Dublin Diocese, but like his predecessor, Cardinal McCabe came to have a distrust of popular movements. Brought up in the city, he was unacquainted with agrarian conditions and he identified with the political movement under Davitt. In pastorals and public speeches he ranged himself against agitation and on the side of government and law, with the result that Nationalist newspapers and public men attacked him as a "Castle" bishop, who favoured coercion and was an enemy of the people. His life was threatened and for a time he was under the protection of the police. MacCabe died at his home in Dun Laoghaire on 11 February 1885.Archdiocese of Dublin: '' Edward McCabe''
/ref> His papers are available in Dublin for consultation by scholars.

References

External links

Biography on the website of the Archdiocese of DublinObituary in the ''New Zealand Herald''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maccabe, Edward 1816 births 1885 deaths Irish cardinals Cardinals created by Pope Leo XIII Roman Catholic archbishops of Dublin 19th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Ireland Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth Christian clergy from Dublin (city)