Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne and Beyond
Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne and Beyond
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Abstract
This book engages with the spectacular disenchantment with Catholicism in Ireland over the relatively short period of four decades. It begins with the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 and in particular his address to young people in Galway, where the crowd had been entertained beforehand by two of Ireland’s most celebrated clerics, Bishop Eamon Casey and Fr Michael Cleary, both of whom were engaged at the time in romantic affairs that resulted in the birth of children. It will be argued that the Pope’s visit was prompted by concern at the significant fall in vocations to priesthood and the religious life and the increasing secularism of Irish society. The book then explores the various referenda that took place during the 1980s on divorce and abortion which, although they resulted in victories for the Church, demonstrated that their hold on the Irish public was weakening. The clerical abuse scandals of the 1990s were the tipping point for an Irish public which was generally resentful of the intrusive and repressive form of Catholicism that had been the norm in Ireland since the formation of the State in the 1920s. Boasting an impressive array of contributors from various backgrounds and expertise, the essays in the book attempt to delineate the exact reasons for the progressive dismantling of the cultural legacy of Catholicism and the consequences this has had on Irish society. Among the contributors are Patricia Casey, Joe Cleary, Michael Cronin, Louise Fuller, Patsy McGarry, Vincent Twomey and Eamonn Wall.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
Eamon Maher andEugene O’Brien
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Part I Tracing change and setting the context
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‘The times they are a changin’’: Tracing the transformation of Irish Catholicism through the eyes of a journalist
Patsy McGarry
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Revisiting the faith of our fathers … and reimagining its relevance in the context of twenty-first-century Ireland
Louise Fuller
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Dethroning Irish Catholicism: Church, State and modernity in contemporary Ireland
David Carroll Cochran
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Refracted visions: Street photography, humanism and the loss of innocence
Justin Carville
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Contemporary Irish Catholicism: A time of hope!
Vincent Twomey
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‘The times they are a changin’’: Tracing the transformation of Irish Catholicism through the eyes of a journalist
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Part II Going against the tide
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The poetry of accumulation: Irish-American fables of resistance
Eamonn Wall
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Prophetic voices or complicit functionaries? Irish priests and the unravelling of a culture
Eamon Maher
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Tony Flannery: A witness in an age of witnesses
Catherine Maignant
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‘Belief shifts’: Ireland’s referendum and the journey from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft
Eugene O’Brien
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The poetry of accumulation: Irish-American fables of resistance
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Part III Challenges in the here and now
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End Matter
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