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SUMMARY:Bishop in the Dock: the sedition trial of James Liston - Rory Swee
 tman\, Otago University
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CONTACT:Francis Lucian Reid
DESCRIPTION:The paper examines the most explosive sectarian episode\nin NZ
  history - the only occasion when a Catholic bishop\nwas criminally prosec
 uted for his political opinions. James Liston's St Patrick's night speech 
 contained sentiments on the Irish question which enfuriated the majority o
 f his colonial audience. His sneering references to the British Empire and
  caustic phrase 'murdered by foreign troops' when describing those Irish v
 ictims of the Troubles led to a storm of protest and posed a huge problem 
 for the government of Prime Minister Bill Massey\, an Ulster-born ex-Orang
 e Grand Master.\n\n\nRory Sweetman is an Irish-born New Zealander\, with h
 istory degrees from Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge. He has published
  extensively on aspects of New Zealand's ethnic and religious history and 
 is currently researching a history of the Orange Order in the antipodes.\n
LOCATION:McCrum Lecture Theatre\, Corpus Christi College.
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