Download or read book The Church of Ireland 1869-1969 written by R. B. McDowell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1975. In 1869 the Church of Ireland, until then part of the Church of England, was disestablished and partially disendowed. The author traces the changes in the Church of Ireland’s organization and function and the decline of its influence and numerical size during the hundred years following disestablishment. This title will be of interest to students of nineteenth- and twentieth-century religious and social history.