m'fadden's

Updated: May 17, 2025

He gave me also, at my request, some valuable information as to the stipends of the Catholic clergy, and the sources from which they are derived. This subject has been agitated in the local press of this part of Ireland in connection with estimates of Father M'Fadden's income at Gweedore, which Father M'Fadden declares, I believe, to be greatly exaggerated.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)

As to his evidence, he explains very clearly that he was not sent to report Father M'Fadden's speech at all, but to note and take down and report language used in the speech of a sort to excite the people against the law.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)

But it certainly goes to confirm the estimates given me by Sergeant Mahony of Father M'Fadden's receipts at Gweedore, and the opinion expressed to me by Lord Lucan as to the average returns of an average Catholic parish, that the priest of Milford, a place hardly so considerable as Gweedore, should have acquired so handsome a property in the exercise there of his parochial functions.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)

The country was quiet enough, he said; but there were some troublesome fellows about, keeping up the excitement over the arrest at Father M'Fadden's trial of Father Stephens a young priest recently from Liverpool, who has become the curate of quite another Father M'Fadden the parish priest of Falcarragh, and is giving his local superior a great deal of trouble by his activity in connection with the "Plan of Campaign."

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)

From each, as we passed, the inevitable cur rushed out and barked himself hoarse. Then came a waste of bog and boulders, and then a long, neat stone wall, well coped with unhewn stone, which announced the vicinity of Father M'Fadden's house, quite the best structure in the place after the chapel and the hotel.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)

He excused himself from joining us as being "almost a teetotaller." On our return to the hotel I met the Galwegian strolling about. When I told him of Father M'Fadden's courteous hospitality, he said, "I am very glad you took that glass he offered. I really believe his quarrel with Captain Hill dates back to Hill's declining that same courtesy under Father M'Fadden's roof."

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)