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Irish Catholic identities

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Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

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

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