- 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
Northern Catholics and the early years of the Troubles
Northern Catholics and the early years of the Troubles
- Chapter:
- (p.345) 21 Northern Catholics and the early years of the Troubles
- Source:
- Irish Catholic Identities
- Author(s):
Oliver P. Rafferty
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
One dimension highlighted in the recent Troubles in Northern Ireland was the struggle between an authoritarian ecclesiastical hierarchy and a violent dissident group whose members were, at least nominally, Catholic. That contest was, so to speak, for the soul of the Catholic community, in circumstances where the church claimed that it alone knew what was best for the Irish people. This occurred against a background of social disintegration and disregard for churchmen and church teaching. In a sense the Republicans claimed that theirs was the authentic voice of Northern Catholicism not that of the hierarchy. Faced by hostility from the British administration and the IRA, the church was unable to be a completely effective instrument for peace and reconciliation. Its relative impotence made the IRA seem the only dynamic force in society
Keywords: Troubles bishops IRA conflict government
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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
