Irish Catholic identities

Synopsis

Traces The Political, Religious, And Cultural Elements Which Have Shaped How The Catholic Irish Identified Themselves From The Coming Of Christianity To The Present. The Celts, Catholicism And The Middle Ages. Gaelic And Catholic In The Early Middle Ages / Bernhard Maier ; Island Of Saints And Scholars : Myth Or Reality? / Donnchadh Ó Corráin ; The Devotional Landscape Of Medieval Irish Cultural Catholicism Inter Hibernicos Et Inter Anglicos, C. 1200-c. 1550 / Salvador Ryan -- Early Modern Struggles. Irish Political Catholicism From The 1530s To 1660 / David Finnegan ; The 'absenting Of The Bishop Of Armagh' : Eucharistic Controversy And The English Origins Of Irish Catholic Identity, 1550-51 / James Murray ; Henry Fitzsimon, The Irish Jesuits And Catholic Identity In The Early Modern Period / Brian Jackson ; Gaelic Catholicism And The Ulster Plantation / Raymond Gillespie --^ Identity Formation In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries. Irish-language Sources For Irish Catholic Identity Since The Early Modern Period : A Brief Survey / Éamonn Ó Ciardha ; The Penal Laws Against Irish Catholics : Were They Too Good For Them? / Thomas Bartlett -- Culture, Women And The American Diaspora. Irish Catholic Culture In The Nineteenth Century : A Study In Perjury / Owen Dudley Edwards ; The Voices Of Catholic Women In Ireland, 1800-1921 / Caitriona Clear ; Irish Diaspora Catholicism In North America / David Doyle -- English Catholics And Irish Identity. Brethren In Christ : Frederick Lucas And Social Catholicism In Ireland / Patrick Maume ; The 'greening' Of Cardinal Manning / Fergal Casey --^ Faith, Wealth And Catholic Unionism. Power, Wealth And Catholic Identity In Ireland, 1850-1900 / Ciaran O'neill ; The Esmonde Family Of Co. Wexford And Catholic Loyalty / Richard Keogh And James Mcconnel ; Catholic Unionism : A Case Study : Sir Denis Stanislaus Henry (1864-1925) / Éamon Phoenix -- Contemporary Expressions Of Catholic And Irish Identity. Identity And Political Fragmentation In Independent Ireland, 1923-83 / Louisse Fuller ; Secular Prayers : Catholic Imagination, Modern Irish Writing And The Case Of John Mcgahern / Frank Shovlin ; Catholic-christian Identity And Modern Irish Poetry / Bernard O'donoghue ; Northern Catholics And The Early Years Of The Troubles / Oliver P. Rafferty ; Irish Identity And The Future Of Catholicism / Nial Coll. Edited By Oliver P. Rafferty. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.