Irish Catholic identities (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Rafferty, Oliver P.

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Produktbeschreibung

What does it mean to be Irish? Are the predicates Catholic and Irish so inextricably linked that it is impossible to have one and not the other? Does the process of secularisation in modern times mean that Catholicism is no longer a touchstone of what it means to be Irish? Indeed was such a paradigm ever true? These are among the fundamental issues addressed in this work, which examines whether distinct identity formation can be traced over time.

The book delineates the course of historical developments which complicated the process of identity formation in the Irish context, when by turns Irish Catholics saw themselves as battling against English hegemony or the Protestant Reformation. Without doubt the Reformation era cast a long shadow over how Irish Catholics would see themselves. But the process of identity formation was of much longer duration.

Newly available in paperback, this work traces the elements which have shaped how the Catholic Irish identified themselves, and explores the political, religious and cultural dimensions of the complex picture which is Irish Catholic identity. The essays represent a systematic attempt to explore the fluidity of the components that make up Catholic identity in Ireland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zando
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780719098369
• Artikelnr.: 44476428

Autorenporträt

Oliver P. Rafferty teaches church history at Heythrop College, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Oliver P. Rafferty Part I: The Celts, Catholicism and the
middle ages 1. Gaelic and Catholic in the early middle ages - Bernhard
Maier 2. Island of saints and scholars: myth or reality? - Donnchadh Ó
Corráin 3. The devotional landscape of medieval Irish cultural Catholicism
inter hibernicos et inter anglicos, c.1200-c.1550 - Salvador Ryan Part II:
Early modern struggles 4. Irish political Catholicism from the 1530s to
1660 - David Finnegan 5. The 'absenting of the bishop of Armagh':
Eucharistic controversy and the English origins of Irish Catholic identity,
1550-51 - James Murray 6. Henry Fitzsimon, the Irish Jesuits and Catholic
identity in the early modern period - Brian Jackson 7. Gaelic Catholicism
and the Ulster plantation - Raymond Gillespie Part III: Identity formation
in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 8. Irish-language sources for
Irish Catholic identity since the early modern period: a brief survey
-Éamonn Ó Ciardha 9. The penal laws against Irish Catholics: were they too
good for them? - Thomas Bartlett Part IV: Culture, women and the American
diaspora 10. Irish Catholic culture in the nineteenth century: a study in
perjury - Owen Dudley Edwards 11. The voices of Catholic women in Ireland,
1800-1921 - Caitriona Clear 12. Irish diaspora Catholicism in North America
- David Doyle Part V: English Catholics and Irish identity 13. Brethren in
Christ: Frederick Lucas and social Catholicism in Ireland - Patrick Maume
14. The 'greening' of Cardinal Manning - Fergal Casey Part VI: Faith,
wealth and Catholic Unionism 15. Power, wealth and Catholic identity in
Ireland, 1850-1900 - Ciaran O'Neill 16. The Esmonde family of Co. Wexford
and Catholic loyalty - Richard Keogh and James McConnel 17. Catholic
Unionism: a case study: Sir Denis Stanislaus Henry (1864-1925) - Éamon
Phoenix Part VII: Contemporary expressions of Catholic and Irish identity
18. Identity and political fragmentation in independent Ireland, 1923-83 -
Louise Fuller 19. Secular prayers: Catholic imagination, modern Irish
writing and the case of John McGahern - Frank Shovlin 20.
Catholic-Christian identity and modern Irish poetry - Bernard O'Donoghue
21. Northern Catholics and the early years of the Troubles - Oliver P.
Rafferty 22. Irish identity and the future of Catholicism - Niall Coll
Index