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Converting Ireland : Religious education, language and colonialism / Karina Bénazech Wendling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wendling, Karina Bénazech.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Connellan, Thaddeus, 1780-1854.
- Irish-language schools.
- Nineteenth century.
- Local Subjects:
- Connellan, Thaddeus, 1780-1854.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Karina Bénazech Wendling re-assesses 'souperism' and British cultural imperialism through the use of the Irish language and Bible in schools. The book explores Protestant societies in Ireland's religious and political landscape, Catholic counter-missions, and nationalist resistance, offering new insights into Irish religious history.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: Irish education: a colonial enterprise?
- Chapter 1: From charity schools to Irish schools
- Charity schools and colonial intentions
- Parochial and charity schools
- Revivalism and missionary impetus
- The British and Foreign Bible Society and its Irish auxiliary
- Baptists' pioneering endeavours
- The Serampore Mission and vernacular languages
- A new interest in Celtic languages
- The Baptist Irish Society: a British initiative
- Unveiling silenced voices: Thaddeus Connellan's central role
- From priesthood to Protestant schoolmaster
- A mediating figure between two worlds
- Contributing to the hybrid identity of the Irish Society
- Forming an unequal confederation
- Chapter 2: Educating the Irish with a national Bible (1818-28)
- The centrality of the book: the Irish Bible at school
- The legacy of the Kildare Place Society
- A defence of the Irish language?
- Translating and printing an authentic Irish Bible
- 'A Bible in every home': a national endeavour
- Mapping Irish-speaking Ireland
- Selecting Irish teachers
- A proto-ecumenical approach?
- A Protestant Trojan horse?
- Promoting 'false translations'
- Transgressing the Index
- Part II: From scriptural education to proselytism
- Chapter 3: Missionary strategies and educational policies in Ireland (1820-45)
- From the politicisation of education to the catholicisation of Irish nationalism
- Catholic opposition to Protestant schools
- 'The Priests do their best to inflame the people'
- Education as a means to make the priests become 'the only lever'
- Pacifying Ireland with a national system of education
- An attempt at secularising Irish education.
- From secularisation to increased confessionalisation
- From national education to a concordat?
- The Irish Society's missionary turn
- The child as instructor
- Expanding missionary strategies
- A new dimension for the Ladies' Association
- Chapter 4: The Dingle colony of converts: an imperial conquest? (1830s-40s)
- The Second Reformation in Dingle
- Early conversions
- Ostracism and violence against converts
- The Dingle 'refuge colony'
- A hybrid community
- An imperial enterprise of colonisation?
- Is this 'conversion', or 'perversion'?
- Missionaries or imperial agents?
- Political collusion
- Part III: Souperism and the radicalisation of sectarianism
- Chapter 5: Souperism and the Great Irish Famine (1840-47)
- A journalistic phenomenon?
- The creation of the Kerry Examiner and the politicisation of souperism
- Press campaigns against soupers
- The press on trial: the Gayer v. Byrne case
- From souperism to relief during the Great Irish Famine
- Government relief in the Dingle Peninsula
- The Famine truce
- Gayer's collaboration with nationalists -an arch-souper no more?
- The Catholic response to the crisis
- Vincentian missions
- A 'Second Counter-Reformation'?
- Another form of souperism?
- Chapter 6: The radicalisation of Irish missions: an unavoidable outcome? (1847-53)
- Irish Protestants and British charity
- The 'Special Fund' - a paragon of souperism?
- A divided network
- The subsequent marginalisation of the Irish Society of Dublin
- Persuasion
- Resistance
- Dallas's victory
- Converting in a dominated society - a radical choice?
- The influence of Dallas on the Dingle and Ventry Mission
- The 'indelible mark of the beast'?
- Souperism and the tenants' rights movement
- Conclusion
- Select bibliography
- Manuscript material
- United Kingdom
- Rome
- Printed primary sources.
- Books and pamphlets
- Secondary sources
- Websites
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-5261-8121-5
- 9781526181190
- OCLC:
- 1579000321
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