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--Ireland--History.

Catholic Church.

Catholics--Religious identity--Ireland.

Catholics.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Identity is contingent and dynamic, constituting and reconstituting subjects with political effects. This book explores the implications of Protestant and 'British' incursions for the development of Irish Catholic identity as preserved in Irish language texts from the early modern period until the end of Stuart pretensions. Questions of citizenship, belonging, migration, conflict, security, peace and subjectivity are examined through social construction, post-colonialism, and gendered lenses from an interdisciplinary perspective. The book explains the issue of cultural Catholicism in the later middle ages, by way of devotional cults and practices. It examines Catholic unionism vis-a-vis Victorian politics, military and imperial service, the crown, and the position of the Catholic Church with relation to the structures of the state in Ireland. In particular the North American experience and especially the importance of the USA for consolidating a particular interpretation of Irish Catholic nationalist identity, is explored. Children studied in English Catholic public schools like Stonyhurst and Downside where the establishment Irish Catholics and rising mercantile classes sought to have the characteristics of the Catholic gentleman instilled in their progeny. The book sets out to detect the voices of those Catholic women who managed to make themselves heard by a wider audience than family and friends in Ireland in the years between the Act of Union of 1800 and independence/partition. It considers what devotional interests both Gaelic Irish and Anglo-Norman actually shared in common as part of a wider late medieval Catholic culture.

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jul 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719098369

071909836X

9781781708569

1781708568

9780719098376

0719098378

OCLC:

1164785682