{"id":1132,"date":"2014-12-05T09:33:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T09:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/?page_id=1132"},"modified":"2015-01-26T22:34:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T22:34:49","slug":"history-parish","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/parish\/history-parish\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Parish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/stmaryschurch.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1134 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/stmaryschurch-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"stmaryschurch\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/stmaryschurch-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/stmaryschurch-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/stmaryschurch-280x187.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/stmaryschurch-1170x778.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/stmaryschurch.jpg 1624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/266;\" \/><\/a>The steady growth of Tallaght in the 1960s led to its separation from the parish of Rathfarnham to which it had belonged for centuries. In 1969 Tallaght was incorporated into the newly created parish of Bohernabreena-Firhouse. But in September 1972 archbishop Dr Dermot Ryan entrusted Dominicans with the care of the Parish of St. Mary\u2019s Tallaght. Initially this included all of Central Tallaght and Kilnamanagh before the latter became a separate parish in 1974.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">St. Mary\u2019s comprised four administrative districts and so three new churches were built: St Dominic\u2019s in Millbrook (1975), St. Aengus\u2019 in Tymon North (1975) and St. Martin\u2019s in Old Bawn (1976), each with a small residential unit for its own Dominican team. Finally, St. Mary\u2019s and its three daughter churches were divided into four parishes in 1985. St. Martin\u2019s parish was returned to the care of the diocesan clergy in 1999.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, more than forty years later, St. Mary\u2019s Church and Dominican Priory has been the hub of a small parish with a sizeable congregation. While prayer, sacramental life, preaching and Pastoral Care are still central to the life of the Parish Community, a number of other apostolic and social initiatives have been developed; e.g. <em>St. Vincent de Paul Society<\/em> whose two distinct branches provide help to the poor; <em>St Catherine\u2019s Counselling Service<\/em>; <em>The Rollebon Press<\/em> which prints and distributes parish Mass-leaflets and catechetical material used all over the country; a Publishing House which issues <em>Alive &#8211;<\/em> a free monthly newspaper; <em>The Priory Institute<\/em> &#8211; Dominican centre for theological distance learning; The Retreat House; <em>The Priory Choir<\/em> and others<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">St. Mary&#8217;s Parish consists now (2014) of approximately 900 houses and 2,500 apartments. Within its boundaries there are Tallaght Hospital, St Mary\u2019s National School, IT Tallaght, the Square Shopping Centre including the Oratory, 3 Hotels, South County Dublin Headquarters, The Civic Theatre, Library and Terminus to the Luas Red Line<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The steady growth of Tallaght in the 1960s led to its separation from the parish of Rathfarnham to which it had belonged for centuries. In 1969 Tallaght was incorporated into the newly created parish of Bohernabreena-Firhouse. But in September 1972 archbishop Dr Dermot Ryan entrusted Dominicans with the care of the Parish of St. Mary\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":591,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1132","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1132\/revisions\/1163"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}