Dear Mairead,
The introduction was written by Norman MacKenzie from Ontario in 1967 (or
1970) and the next page does indeed mention "In 1894 H. was made Professor
of Greek Literature at University College Dublin" - senior or not it seems to
have been Carrion Comfort for him.
I didn't know that in terms of Catholic practice there was much of a "cultural
gap between our islands" though there well may be. I'm pretty sure that in
Liverpool where Hopkins worked there isn't. Protestants, if that's what you
mean, don't have priests but vicars...
Best wishes,
Jamie
>I wonder who wrote the intro, and when it was written. "Parish priest" may
>well mean different things in Ireland and England (and your intro, for some
>reason, doesn't mention his most senior post, in Dublin).
>For example, Father Ted is the parish priest of Craggy Island. Father Dougal
>and Father Jack, while they may work in the parish (though being Father
>Dougal and Father Jack, they don't), are curates. I don't know that Jesuits
>work in a diocesan sense at all. Then again, I am not that familiar with the
>terms "select preacher" or "missioner" either, leaving me wondering again
>about the date and provenance of your introduction, as well as the slight
>cultural gap between our islands.
>Mairead
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Jamie Mckendrick
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Dear Mairead,
You say
"Hopkins wasn't a parish priest.
When he died in 1889, aged 44, he was Professor of Greek and Examiner in
Classics for the Royal University of Ireland. As a Jesuit, he was unlikely to be
a parish priest, in the Catholic sense of that term, i.e., administrator of a
parish."
The intro to the OUP Poems claims:
"After his ordination in 1877 Hopkins served for varying periods as select
preacher, missioner, parish priest and teacher of Classics in Jesuit
establishments up and down the country - from London and Oxford to
Liverpool, Glasgow, Chesterfield and Stonyhurst."
Now I'm not sure who to believe.
Best wishes,
Jamie
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