- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
-
1 Gaelic and Catholic in the early middle ages -
2 Island of saints and scholars -
3 The devotional landscape of medieval Irish cultural Catholicism inter hibernicos et inter anglicos, c.1200–c.1550 -
4 Irish political Catholicism from the 1530s to 1660 -
5 The ‘absenting of the bishop of Armagh’ -
6 Henry Fitzsimon, the Irish Jesuits and Catholic identity in the early modern period -
7 Gaelic Catholicism and the Ulster plantation -
8 Irish-language sources for Irish Catholic identity since the early modern period -
9 The penal laws against Irish Catholics -
10 Irish Catholic culture in the nineteenth century -
11 The voices of Catholic women in Ireland, 1800–1921 -
12 Irish diaspora Catholicism in North America* -
13 Brethren in Christ -
14 The ‘greening’ of Cardinal Manning -
15 Power, wealth and Catholic identity in Ireland, 1850–1900 -
16 The Esmonde family of Co. Wexford and Catholic loyalty -
17 Catholic Unionism -
18 Identity and political fragmentation in independent Ireland, 1923–83 -
19 Secular prayers -
20 Catholic-Christian identity and modern Irish poetry -
21 Northern Catholics and the early years of the Troubles -
22 Irish identity and the future of Catholicism - Index
Introduction
Introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.1) Introduction
- Source:
- Irish Catholic Identities
- Author(s):
Oliver P. Rafferty
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
The introduction initially sets out the main theoretical issues that the topic of Irish Catholic identities gives rise to. It address ideas such as ‘historico-myth consciousness’, and asks if the idea of myth is more truly representative of identity that the historical reality itself. Identities are constructed for purposes of inclusion and exclusion and such construction is the result of long and complex processes. For any given group these are predicated on common historical experiences but are also formed within the context of a literary articulation in any given culture. Having briefly addressed these and related topics the introduction then briefly summarises the chapters which follow.
Keywords: Myth history identity
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
-
1 Gaelic and Catholic in the early middle ages -
2 Island of saints and scholars -
3 The devotional landscape of medieval Irish cultural Catholicism inter hibernicos et inter anglicos, c.1200–c.1550 -
4 Irish political Catholicism from the 1530s to 1660 -
5 The ‘absenting of the bishop of Armagh’ -
6 Henry Fitzsimon, the Irish Jesuits and Catholic identity in the early modern period -
7 Gaelic Catholicism and the Ulster plantation -
8 Irish-language sources for Irish Catholic identity since the early modern period -
9 The penal laws against Irish Catholics -
10 Irish Catholic culture in the nineteenth century -
11 The voices of Catholic women in Ireland, 1800–1921 -
12 Irish diaspora Catholicism in North America* -
13 Brethren in Christ -
14 The ‘greening’ of Cardinal Manning -
15 Power, wealth and Catholic identity in Ireland, 1850–1900 -
16 The Esmonde family of Co. Wexford and Catholic loyalty -
17 Catholic Unionism -
18 Identity and political fragmentation in independent Ireland, 1923–83 -
19 Secular prayers -
20 Catholic-Christian identity and modern Irish poetry -
21 Northern Catholics and the early years of the Troubles -
22 Irish identity and the future of Catholicism - Index
