Disestablishment 150
As the end of 2020 approached many in Ireland, the United Kingdom and across western Europe held their collective breaths as the negotiations to strike a free grade deal between the EEC and the UK inched closer to a conclusion – a conclusion that would be the immediate preface to the UK leaving the EEC on I January 2021. In one those odd coincidences of history New Year’s Day 2012 marked the 150th anniversary of another sundering of the relations between Great Britain and Ireland – the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland. Disestablishment had been legislated for by…
