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Making, Breaking and Remaking the Irish Missionary Network
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Making, Breaking and Remaking the Irish Missionary Network

This book reconstructs the efforts that were made to establish a missionary network between the two Irish Colleges of Rome, Ireland, and the West Indies during the seventeenth century. It analyses the process which brought the Irish clergy to establish two dedicated colleges in the epicenter of early modern Catholicism and to develop a series of missionary initiatives in the English islands of the West Indies. During a period of great political change in Ireland, continental Europe and the Atlantic region, the book traces how and through which key figures and institutions this clerical channel was established, while at the same time identifying the main obstacles to its development.

A Dominant Church
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 712

A Dominant Church

Traces the story of Achonry, in Sligo, through the 19th and first half of the 20th century.

Reactions to Revolutions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

Reactions to Revolutions

The outbreak of revolution in Paris in 1789 forced Britain into a political and military conflict that had a profound impact on politics, economy, public discourse and cultural life well into the 19th century. The essays collected here examine the various responses to the revolution and the significant changes wrought within Britain by the events. Some essays discuss the ideological divisions within Britain and Ireland. Others take a closer look at the media and the debate on the press, and reinvestigate responses to the revolution by prominent contemporaries such as William Godwin, Dugald Stewart, and William Wordsworth.

An Irish-Speaking Island
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 465

An Irish-Speaking Island

This groundbreaking book shatters historical stereotypes, demonstrating that, in the century before 1870, Ireland was not an anglicized kingdom and was capable of articulating modernity in the Irish language. It gives a dynamic account of the complexity of Ireland in the nineteenth century, developments in church and state, and the adaptive bilingualism found across all regions, social levels, and religious persuasions.

Print and the Celtic Languages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Print and the Celtic Languages

This book is a study of the print cultures of the four principal Celtic languages — Irish, Welsh, Gaelic and Breton — in the crucial period between 1700 and 1900. Over the past four centuries, the Celtic languages of northwest Europe have followed contrasting paths of maintenance and decline. This was despite their common lack of official recognition and use, and their common distance from the centres of political power. This volume analyses publishing, circulation and reading in the four languages, particularly at a popular level, showing the different levels of overall activity as well as the distinctions in the types of printed texts between regions. The approach is a broad one, considering all printed books down to very small cheap formats. It explores the interactions between the different regions and the continuation of print culture within diasporic communities. This volume will appeal to book historians, to scholars of the four languages and their literature, and to students of Celtic studies.

Occasional Homilies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120

Occasional Homilies

This book is a collection of homilies for thirty major occasions from world peace day to blessing a home, from first communion to pilgrimages.

Confessionalism and Mobility in Early Modern Ireland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

Confessionalism and Mobility in Early Modern Ireland

This book provides an entirely new perspective on religious change in Early Modern Ireland by tracing the constant and ubiquitous impact of mobility on the development and maintenance of the island's competing confessional groupings.

The King's Irishmen
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

The King's Irishmen

A novel study of the political, religious, and cultural worlds of the principal Irish figures at the exiled court of Charles II

The Preacher and the Prelate
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

The Preacher and the Prelate

This is the extraordinary story of an audacious fight for souls on famine ravaged Achill Island in the nineteenth century. Religious ferment swept Ireland in the early 1800s and evangelical Protestant clergyman Edward Nangle set out to lift the destitute people of Achill out of degradation and idolatry through his Achill Mission Colony. The fury of the island elements, the devastation of famine, and Nangle’s own volatile temperament all threatened the project’s survival. In the years of the Great Famine the ugly charge of ‘souperism’, offering food and material benefits in return for religious conversion, tainted the Achill Mission’s work. John MacHale, powerful Archbishop of Tuam,...

Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Union
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Union

The essays in this collection focus on United Irish propaganda and organisation before and during the 1798 rebellion.