ST MALACHY—PROPHET OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE?
By Robin Fuller One hundred years ago it was quite common for Irish people to believe that they were living in times foretold by St Malachy, the twelfth-century archbishop of Armagh. Malachy purportedly predicted that, after 700 years under the yoke of her foe, Ireland’s ‘light shall burst forth as the sun’: ‘The Church of … Read more