1862 – A Furious Faith Fight in Fethard

Tipperary Free Press, 11 March 1862

The rather snippy correspondence between Rev. Hiffernan of the Church of Ireland and Rev. Hogan, his Roman Catholic counterpart, relative to the death-bed  conversion of a Fethard man. “You are to mind your business elsewhere” is a wonderful 19th Century way of telling one to keep their nose out…