Christianity in Ireland

by Bradshaw, Brendan

• ISBN13: 9781856073509
• ISBN10: 1856073505
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Columba Pr

Summary

23 essays on the history of Christianity in Ireland, from earliest times To The present.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(4)
Bishop Patrick and the earliest Christian mission to Ireland	11	(10)
Alfred P. Smyth
The golden age of early Irish monasticism: Myth or historical reality?	21	(9)
Alfred P. Smyth
The contribution of Irish missionaries and scholars to medieval Christianity	30	(14)
Marie Therese Flanagan
The Irish church in the Middle Ages	44	(13)
John A. Watt
Lay female piety and church patronage in late medieval Ireland	57	(19)
Mary Ann Lyons
The Reformation in Ireland	76	(10)
Brendan Bradshaw
Religious wars in Ireland: Plantations and martyrs of the Catholic Church	86	(10)
Colm Lennon
Augustinians and Scotists: The Irish contribution to Counter-Reformation theology in continental Europe	96	(13)
Declan M. Downey
The religion of the Protestant laity in early modern Ireland	109	(15)
Raymond Gillespie
The Presbyterian Church in Ireland	124	(10)
Finlay Holmes
A time of reform: from the `penal laws' to the birth of modern nationalism, 1691-1800	134	(10)
Hugh Fenning
Irish Methodism	144	(11)
Dudley Levistone Cooney
The Catholic Church in Ireland in the age of the North Atlantic Revolution, 1775-1815	155	(9)
Daire Keogh
The Catholic Church in the age of O'Connell	164	(22)
Donal Kerr
The Catholic Church after the Famine: Consolidation and change	186	(9)
Gerard Moran
The Parish Mission Movement, 1850-1880	195	(10)
Emmet Larkin
The Catholic Church from Parnell to Partition	205	(15)
Mary N. Harris
The Church of Ireland since Partition	220	(11)
Kenneth Milne
Irish Catholicism in the diaspora: The case of the United States	231	(18)
David Noel Doyle
Church and state in modern Ireland, 1923-1970: An appraisal reappraised	249	(10)
Thomas Bartlett
Northern Ireland and the post-Vatican II ecumenical journey	259	(12)
Michael Hurley
The troubled contemporary Irish Catholic Church	271	(16)
James S. Donnelly Jr
Religion in Ireland: Its state and prospects	287	(11)
Noel Barber
Epilogue: Donal Kerr	298	(3)
Kevin B. Nowlan
A Chronology of Irish History	301	(34)
Notes	335	(48)
Index	383	(25)
The Contributors	408