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The Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Pre-famine Ireland, 17850 Timothy N. Tansey These poems are testament toIn this new volume, noted Irish historian Emmet Larkin turns his attention to the pastoral challenges the Roman Catholic Church faced in ministering to an exploding population of Irish Catholics in the years before the Great Famine of 1847. The extraordinary increase in the population of Ireland from the mid eighteenth to the mid nineteenth century combined with a lack of financial resources available to the church as well as a shortage of clergy and