Thomas Nulty

The Most Reverend Dr. Thomas Nulty or Thomas McNulty (1818–1898) was born to a farming family in Fennor, Oldcastle, Co. Meath,[1][2] on 7 July 1818, and died in office as the Irish Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath[3] on Christmas Eve, 1898.

[4] Nulty was educated at Gilson School, Oldcastle, County Meath, St. Finians, Navan Seminary and Maynooth College.

During the course of his first pastoral appointment, he officiated at an average 11 funerals of famine victims (mostly children or the aged) a day, and in 1848 he described a large-scale eviction of 700 tenants in the diocese,[5] thought to have been near Lough Sheelin, a freshwater lough at a meeting point of Counties Westmeath, Meath and Cavan.

[6][7] Nulty was in agreement with the economic ideas of the progressive reformer Henry George.

Nulty read George's book Progress and Poverty multiple times and agreed with every word.