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In Shame, Love, In Shame

In 1946, in an act of defiance against the local clergy, a group of local men in Listowel, Co. Kerry force open the locked gates of the Parish Church. What was it that drove the congregation to challenge Canon Patrick Brennan's dominion? (2018)

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