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Hilary Joyce
Bishop

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Bishop, Hilary Joyce, “Memory and legend: recollections of penal times in Irish folklore”, Folklore: The Journal of the Folklore Society 129:1 (March, 2018): 18–38.  
abstract:
Stories of priests being hunted down and murdered at Mass Rocks by priest-catchers and soldiers during the Penal era in Ireland persist to the present day. Using a tripartite taxonomy of memory, this article explores the reasons why these images continue to dominate and reflect the persecuted nature of Catholicism.
abstract:
Stories of priests being hunted down and murdered at Mass Rocks by priest-catchers and soldiers during the Penal era in Ireland persist to the present day. Using a tripartite taxonomy of memory, this article explores the reasons why these images continue to dominate and reflect the persecuted nature of Catholicism.