Michael Keating (priest)
Michael John Keatinge (1793–1877), also Keating, was a 19th-century Irish Anglican[1] priest.[2] He argued in 1827 that the economic problems of Ireland were largely caused by the system of letting land, with which government should not interfere.[3]
Life[edit]
Keatinge was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating B.A. in 1814.[4][5] In 1824 he was a school patron at Bruree,[6] and at Cahirnarry, also in county Limerick.[7] His expressed views on economics in Ireland have been characterised as "reductive Malthusian". At this time there were proponents in the Church of Ireland clergy of a Poor Law system. Keatinge belonged to the clerical opposition, as did George Hickey of County Wexford who in 1820 wrote as "Martin Doyle" on The State of the Poor of Ireland Considered and agricultural education, and George Miller of Derryvullan, who advocated laisser faire. Keatinge saw the solutions, to perceived overpopulation, in emigration, and "moral education".[8][9]
By 1827 Keatinge was Rector of Ventry in county Kerry.[10] He was Rector there to 1841.[11]
Keatinge was Archdeacon of Ardfert[12] from 1839[13] to 1856; and Dean of Kilfenora from then[14] until 1877.[15]
Works[edit]
Keatinge was the author of two books published at Limerick, under variant names Michael I. Keating or Michael J. Keating:
- A letter to Wilmot Horton, Esq. M.P. on emigration from Ireland (1826),[16] as Michael I. Keating, Secretary of the Limerick Emigrants' Friend Society
- A Letter to the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn on Grand Jury Laws and a legal provision for the Poor of Ireland (1827),[17] was the second edition, Suggestions for a Revision of the Irish Grand Jury Laws having appeared in 1825.[18]
References[edit]
- ^ Ireland The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Jan 22, 1862; pg. 9; Issue 24149
- ^ Obituaries, death notices, etc - Limerick.ie limerickcity.ie/Library/LocalStudies/.../k.doc "Keating George Wycombe Cottage Old Windsor aged 39 son of late Dr William Keating of Limerick, nephew of Dean of Kilfenora
- ^ O'Brien, George Augustine Thomas (1921). "The Economic History of Ireland from the Union to the Famine". Internet Archive. London, New York: Longmans, Green & Co. pp. 131 and note 3. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
- ^ Burtchaell, G.D; Sadlier, T.U (1935). Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860). Dublin: Alex Thom and Co. p. 455.
- ^ Frederic Boase (1912). Modern English Biography: (Supplement v.1-3). Netherton and Worth. p. 2187.
- ^ Report of the Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor of Ireland. Society. 1824. p. 107.
- ^ "Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers On Ireland". Retrieved 30 March 2017.
- ^ Peter Gray (15 June 2009). The Making of the Irish Poor Law, 1815-43. Manchester University Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-7190-7649-7.
- ^ Helen O'Connell (21 September 2006). Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement. OUP Oxford. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-19-928646-1.
- ^ The Christian Observer. Hatchard and Company. 1828. p. 320.
- ^ J A Murphy. The Church of Ireland in Co Kerry. Lulu.com. p. 242. ISBN 978-1-4710-8025-8.
- ^ Cotton, Henry (1851). Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ, the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Vol. I (2nd ed.). London: Hodes and Smith. p. 452.
- ^ "The Protestant Church" Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (Dublin, Ireland), Wednesday, October 24, 1838
- ^ Ireland The Times (London, England), Thursday, Oct 15, 1868; pg. 7; Issue 26256
- ^ Murphy, J.A. (2016). The Church of Ireland in County Kerry. Cork: Lulu. p. 242. ISBN 9781471080258.
- ^ Michael I. Keating (Secretary of the Limerick Emigrants'Friend Society.) (1826). A letter to W. Horton ... on emigration from Ireland.
- ^ Michael J. Keating (1825). A Letter to the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn on Grand Jury Laws and a legal provision for the Poor of Ireland. Canter's Commission Paper Warehouse.
- ^ James H. Murphy (1 September 2011). The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume IV: The Irish Book in English, 1800-1891. OUP Oxford. p. 82 note 6. ISBN 978-0-19-818731-8.