Irish Catholic identities / edited by Oliver P. Rafferty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rafferty, Oliver, editor.

Manchester University Press, publisher.

Series:

Manchester Religious Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church--Ireland--History.

Catholics--Religious identity--Ireland.

Catholics.

Ireland.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 386 pages) : map; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

'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 secularization 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. Was Irish Catholic identity in such circumstances simply a negative construct which severed to give some semblance of cultural coherence in an Ireland that was fundamentally changing? 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. The twenty-two chapters of this work trace the elements which have shaped how the Catholic Irish identified themselves from the coming of Christianity to the contemporary era, and explore the political, religious, and cultural dimensions of the complex picture which is Irish Catholic identity. The individual essays, using traditional historical sources as well as contemporary literary works, together represent a systematic attempt, unique in the literature, to explore the fluidity of the components that make up Catholic identity in the Irish context. Aimed at scholars, students and general readers alike, Irish Catholic Identities brings together some of the foremost scholars in their respective fields including: Tom Bartlett, Donnchahd Ó Corráin, Owen Dudley Edwards, Raymond Gillespie, and Bernard O’ Donoghue' --Back cover.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Available through ManchesterHive.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9780719098369

071909836X

9781781708569

1781708568

9780719098376

0719098378

OCLC:

1164785682