Time Restriction Quotes
Dance halls were wholesome institutions attended by Irish families for recreation. Many of the dance halls were in churches and run by the priests. This quotation illustrates the unusual political power that the Roman Catholic heirarcy exerted in Ireland. Even in such basic local ordinances such as the closing time of dance halls, insteat of a local ordinance or even the clergy asking the government for an ordinance, the archbishop just issued his edict like the Kings of hundreds of years ago. In this case, the other archbishops also issued the edict and without the parliament even considereing the issue, it became the law of the entire country.
