Thomas Nulty

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The Most Reverend Dr. Thomas Nulty or Thomas McNulty (1818-1898) was born of farmers on July 7, 1818 and died in office as the Irish Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath[1] on Christmas Eve, 1898. Nulty was educated at Gilson School, Oldcastle, County Meath, St. Finians, Navan Seminary and Maynooth College. He was ordained in 1846. Nulty was a cleric during the Irish Potato Famine. During the course of his first pastoral appointment, he officiated at an average 11 funerals of famine victims (most children or the aged) a day.

Thomas Nulty, as above noted, eventually, rose to become the Most Reverend Bishop of Meath and was known as a fierce defender of the tenant rights of Irish tenant farmers throughout the 34 years that he served in that office from 1864 to 1898.[2][3] Thomas Nulty is famed for his 1881 tract Back to the Land, wherein he makes the case for land reform of the Irish land tenure system.[4] Nulty was a personal friend and staunch supporter of the Irish nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell.

The Most Reverend Dr. Thomas Nulty, who had attended the First Vatican Council in 1870, said his last mass on December 21, 1898.

References

  1. ↑ Conrad Eubel Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 8, Page 195, and Page 382 Published: Monasterii Sumptibus et typis librariae Regensbergianae (1913, in Latin) digitized, University of Toronto
  2. ↑ D. Bank & A. Esposito, British Biographical Index, London, K.G. Saur, 1990, Vol. 3 J-O (ISBN 0-86291-393-4), p. 1380 (referencing article on corresponding microfiche 824, 206, and which article cites the London Times for December 26, 1898 at page 4 and Brady's 1877 The Episcopal Succession, ii 361, as its sources)
  3. ↑ "Navan Historical Society - Nulty, Bishop Thomas". Navanhistory.ie. Retrieved 2013-11-26. 
  4. ↑ "‘Back to the Land’ (1881) by Dr. Thomas Nulty, Bishop of Meath | Lux Occulta". Lxoa.wordpress.com. 2011-05-29. Retrieved 2013-11-26. 

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