Denis Hallinan

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Denis Hallinan (14 November 1849, Graigue – 2 July 1923, Limerick) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop.[https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bhalli.html Catholic Hierarchy]

Hallinan was educated at The Irish College, Rome and ordained in 1874.[http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/bishops%2001.pdf Bishops of Ireland 1870-1987] After a curacy in Jersey he joined the staff of St Munchin's College.{{Who's Who | title=Keane, David | id = U227611| type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 17 February 2021 }} He served in Newcastle West and Limerick.[http://limerickdioceseheritage.org/Diocese/FormerBishops/DenisHallinan.htm Limerick Diocese Heritage] Hallinan was appointed Bishop of Limerick on 10 January 1918. He was consecrated on 2 March that year and died in post. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD).{{cite book |editor1-last=Fryde |editor1-first=E. B. |editor2-last=Greenway |editor2-first=D. E. |editor3-last=Porter |editor3-first=S. |editor4-last=Roy |editor4-first=I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology |edition=3rd, reprinted 2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1986 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }} Bishop Hallinan, with the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor Phons O’Mara, called for the end of the ‘Limerick Soviet’. The socialists complied, and it was dissolved on 27 April 1919, after only two weeks’ existence.