By Dr Ian d’Alton
The Church of Ireland Gazette in 1920 proclaimed itself as ‘A Church paper for Church people’. It had shed its earlier image as ‘a clerical paper for clergy’ and in 1921 denied that ‘the trail of clericalism is visible in our Editorial notes’. It was not the official mouthpiece of the Church but, inevitably, was often seen in that light.
Church of Ireland Gazette 6 May 1921
Founded as the Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette in 1856, it had reported on the vicissitudes and turbulences that had rocked the Church since then – institutional, political and theological. In…
