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BOOK REVIEW

*Philip Ayres, Prince of the Church: Patrick Francis Moran, 1830–1911,* Miegunyah Press, Carlton, Vic, 2007. pp. xvi + 367. $55.00 cloth.**
Patrick Francis Moran was tall, scholarly and pious, a fluent Irish-speaker from Carlow, at times publicly argumentative but by temperament somewhat withdrawn, who, from the age of 12, worked tirelessly for the Catholic Church in Ireland, Italy and Australia, rising to the rank of cardinal and having considerable influence. He is usually remembered in Australian labour history for his moderate but real support for the maritime strikers of 1890 and the Watson Labor government of 1904.	1
Philip Ayres' knowledgeable but enigmatic biography of him, Prince of the Church: Patrick Francis Moran 1830–1911, is essential reading for those interested in Australian labour history, the Irish diaspora or Catholic Church history. A life of Moran has been long overdue and this one was commissioned by Cardinal George Pell of Sydney.	2
After a few pages on the boyhood years, Ayres offers 14 chapters of about 20 pages each divided into the three clear sections of Moran's public life according to where he lived and worked. The first part covers the years 1842–66 when Moran was a student and later seminary vice-rector in Rome, Italy. The second takes in 1866–84 when he was secretary to his half-uncle Cardinal Paul Cullen in Dublin and then Bishop of Ossory, based in Kilkenny, Ireland. The third, which makes up over half the book, is about Moran as cardinal archbishop of Sydney, Australia, from 1884 to 1911. While the sources available on Moran's full and long life are daunting in volume and geographical dispersion, Ayres has done an impressive job of bringing together numerous threads. He draws on unfinished biographies by Denis O'Haran, Maurice O'Reilly and especially, it seems, Eris O'Brien. He acknowledges and refers to research by the late Tony Cahill who, as some readers of this journal may recall, worked on aspects of Moran's life for over 40 years.	. . .

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