Life
1797-[?]; b. Garryowen, Co. Limerick; Catholic priest; contested rights and charity with O’Connell in relation to the Poor Law; warned of Catholic hegemony in 1831; called on Irish working class to form Confederate Clubs on French model, and seek a Workman’s Bill of Rights; defrocked and excommunicated.
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Criticism
Fergus D’Arcy, ‘Religion, radicalism and rebellion in nineteenth-century
Ireland: the Case of Thaddeus O’Malley’, in Judith Devlin & Ronan Fanning, eds., Religion and Rebellion (UCD Press ?1997), 240pp.
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