- 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
Irish Catholic culture in the nineteenth century
Irish Catholic culture in the nineteenth century
a study in perjury
- Chapter:
- (p.171) 10 Irish Catholic culture in the nineteenth century
- Source:
- Irish Catholic Identities
- Author(s):
Owen Dudley Edwards
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
The penal laws undoubtedly affected Catholic attitudes to all law in Ireland. This was particularly manifested in confrontation with agencies of legal enforcement, especially the courts. Despite the clear teaching of the church, and at times campaigns by reforming bishops, Irish Catholics found it difficult to see that there was an absolute obligation to tell the truth in forensic contexts. This gave ammunition to Protestant polemical propagandists and became the stuff of legend for Anglo-Irish writers in their observations of the Irish character. Given the eighteen-century Irish Catholic experience, Catholics subsequently seem to have lost their love of truth telling, since in some contexts truthfulness would ensure further persecution. At least according to William Carleton, falsehood was essential to the functioning of Irish peasant society.
Keywords: truthfulness Irish-character courts perjury Carleton
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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
