Talk:History of Christianity in Ireland

Please use edit summaries to explain the rationale for your edits
Benkenobi18, you have deleted significant amounts of text from the sections of the article regarding Patrick and the monasteries. A quick scan of the deleted sections suggests that there may be good reasons for the deletions. In some cases, text was moved elsewhere and merged with other text. In other cases, it looks like irrelevant or excessive detail was removed.

As a courtesy to other editors, especially those whose text you are editing, could you leave a few words in the edit summaries so we don't have to try and guess why you did what you did and whether we agree? The edit summaries can be brief along the lines of "removing excessive detail", "removing irrelevant information", "moving higher (or lower) in the article", "merging with the section on X".

Thanks.

--Richard (talk) 16:00, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Apologies. I've been moving quite a bit to make it sound better. This whole page is taken from another page and was rather hastily thrown together. Benkenobi18 (talk) 00:28, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Roman Catholic or just Catholic Bible in Irish??
The "Translation of the Bible into Irish" mentions Protestants who were Catholic in a general sense, but not Roman Catholic; Walsh, Donnellan, Bedell and Richardson. The first Bible in Irish approved for Roman Catholics and translated by Roman Catholics was all the way back in 1981.86.42.220.173 (talk) 19:51, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Recent edits
I forgot to say why I made the edits at the time, so for the record I removed a great deal of material to streamline the article. There was also some semi-polemical slants that I thought best left out. Hope it reads better as a result. Fergananim (talk) 07:28, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Serious work required
This article needs all the help it can get. Too much political history (which I removed) and not enough on the church itself - even there, sloppy material, relying out out-of-date polemical works. And not a word about the abuse scandals since the 1990s. Fergananim (talk) 07:42, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Title Change?
Is this article about the history of Christianity in Ireland? Or is it the history of only Roman Catholicism in Ireland? The two are neither exclusive, nor the same. Therefore, a title change to "History of Christianity in Ireland" might be in order, as it is the more encompassing category. Thoughts?Ri Osraige (talk) 20:58, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Copyright problem
This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Content was copied in this edit in 2009 from the copyright reserved Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture (2004). (Cf. this online excerpt of the same text. Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement, for instance if content is licensed appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:51, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Pre-Patrick and Palladius Section Needs Cleaned Up
I am not the author of this article, and I know little enough about it (I came looking for information, not to share it) that I cannot do it myself. However, the following sentence, in the Introduction of Christianity section:

"The lengths they went to for tranquility are evident from the monastery of Skellig Michael."

is clearly out of place. This monastery post-dates Palladius and Patrick by several hundred years (as can be found on the Skellig Michael wikipage). I am uncertain whether the other monasteries referred to in this section are also later, which would obviate the suggestion that Ireland was a ready and welcoming place for conversion (the question of whether this was true was the actual matter I came here to investigate). Ultimately, this is an important scholastic question, so deleting the sentence, while a good start, fails to address the underlying question.Drkirienko (talk) 03:50, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Morality and Censorship
The morality and censorship section could really use some cleaning up. The first sentence itself doesn't tell us much about how the church reinforced public censorship and immediately is followed up by a section about divorce. I think this section could be written in more neutral language as well as adding what ways they supported censorship. DrZoogaloo (talk) 05:45, 15 February 2024 (UTC)