An Interview with Primate McCann the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland

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An Interview with Primate McCann the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland

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Location

St Patrick's Church of Ireland Cathedral

Year

1963

Date

Production 02/12/1963

Length

04min 03sec

Audio

sound

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

William McGookin interviews Primate James McCann, then Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (1959 to 1969). Primate McCann speaks about the changes in society that have affected the preaching of religion in the modern day. He talks of how society is more fractured, the growth of ‘free love’, and addresses the challenge to the Christian church of this ‘new morality’. 

Notes

Primate James McCann was born in Grantham on 31 October 1897 and educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Queen’s University, Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained in 1920. 

He was Rector of Donaghpatrick from 1930 to 1936 and of St Mary’s, Drogheda, from 1936 to 1945. He was Bishop of Meath from 1945 to 1959, then Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1959 to 1969. He died on 19 July 1983. 

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An Ulster Television Production

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