St. Michan's Catholic Church is a

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located on the

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. It is the parish church for the Halston Street Parish in the

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History

The church was built between 1810 and 1817. It was constructed before Catholic Emancipation (1829) and wasn't allowed an entrance that opened onto a main street. The presence of

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and

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had elevated the importance of Halston Street at the time and so entry to the church was through the less important North Anne Street to the west. In the late nineteenth century, the addition of a tall

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tower by

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to the east provided a new entrance from Halston Street. The church contains a number of impressive

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in the Mortuary Chapel. Since 2012, the Romanian (Greek Rite) Catholic Community have used Halston Street Parish for their services.

People Associated with St. Michan's

* Bishop John Dempsey, served in St Michan's, before becoming Bishop of Kildare * Archbishop Patrick Fitzsimons STD served as parish priest at St. Michan's from 1744 to 1763, prior to becoming Archbishop of Dublin * Archbishop

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, served as a curate in St. Michan's, serving from 1697 to 1707, from nearby Broadstone, he is buried in the church graveyard. * Rev. Dr.

Cornelius Nary Cornelius Nary, (1660–3 March 1738), was an Irish priest and religious writer. Born in County Kildare and educated at Naas, he was ordained in 1684 in Kilkenny, and shortly after moved to Paris, where he studied at the Irish College in Paris (ea ...

DCL, LLD, catholic writer, controversialist, and activist, served as parish priest * Rev. Myles Vincent Ronan, MA, DLitt, FRSAI, MRIA, FRHS, PP, church historian, and controversialist, curate (1902-04) and from 1942 parish priest of Halston Street, wrote a history of the parish published in 1948.Myles Vincent Ronan
Contributed by Andrew O'Brien, Dictionary of Irish Biography. * Fr. Bryan Shortall OFM Cap., Parish Priest 2010–2019

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