on 4/28/01 12:00 AM, SHAMROCK-D-request@rootsweb.com at SHAMROCK-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > From: Patricia Jungwirth <tricia.j@aardvark.net.au> > Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 22:01:02 +1000 > To: SHAMROCK-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SH] Ireland's National Trust?? > > Hello, > > Over the last few weeks I have asked about Ireland's Nationa Trust - to no > avail? - in the meantime I'm waiting for a reply from the National Trust... > > > I gather by the deafening silence to my query on Shamrock that nobody has > had any dealings with Ireland's National Trust? - > > so does anybody know anything about the office in the former Tailor's Guild > building - in Back Lane Dublin - the building was probably erected about > 1710 and is now the head-office of Ireland's National Trust. > > > thanks > Robert > > p.s. - why waste an email - > > anybody care to comment on the prospect that an Irishman/woman could be > legally descended from a catholic priest? - was the priest married first - > had a family. wife died, and then joined the priesthood? > > Anybody know whether an ordained priest of the Church of Ireland would > likely be married and have children? > > ______________________________ The Church of Ireland, as I understand it is actually a body of the Anglican Church, which is Protestant and allows the priests to marry. I do not know if at this time they are ordaining women as the Church of England is starting to do, but I am pretty sure that the Church of Ireland is Protestant. Not to be confused with the Roman Catholic Church, from the Holy See of the Vatican in Italy, which does not allow its priests to marry. Kathy Marie Garness