Tallaght & the Underworld
Tallaght & the Underworld As the peal of church bells has been replaced by the sound of sirens and the pervading din of commercial traffic, it is easy to forget that we are only one generation removed from a world inhabited by spirits, holy and otherwise; one generation from a belief in ghosts, in the supernatural and the spirit world. Since the introduction of electricity to Tallaght in 1933, what was once a prevailing belief in the spirit world has, for better or worse, declined. The Exorcists On the 18th of March 1935 ten Dominicans travelled from the Dominican Priory in Tallaght village to Holy Cross College (Clonliffe) in Drumcondra. There they were joined by two Jesuits from Milltown Park and an Augustinian from Orlagh, in Rathfarnham. At the Quarter Tense Ordinations the Most Rev. Dr. Wall, Bishop of Thasos, welcomed all thirteen men with an ancient Rite, into the Minor Order of Exorcist and Acolyte. Since at least the third century the Latin Church had fo