Representing Irish Religious Histories: Historiography, Ideology and Practice

ISBN-13: 9783319823775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 313 str.

Jacqueline Hill;Mary Ann Lyons

Opis

This collection begins on the premise that, until recently, religion has been particularly influential in Ireland in forming a sense of identity, and in creating certain versions of reality. History has also been a key component in that process, and the historical evolution of Christianity has been appropriated by the main religious denominations – Catholic, Church of Ireland, and Presbyterian – with a view to reinforcing their own identities. This book explores the ways in which this occurred; the writing of religious history, and some of the manifestations of that process, forms key parts of the collection. Also included are chapters discussing current and recent attempts to examine the legacy of collective religious memory - notably in Northern Ireland - based on projects designed to encourage reflection about the religious past among both adults and school-children. Readers will find this collection particularly timely in view of the current ‘decade of commemorations’.

Spis treści

Illustrations and tables

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

Foreward

Toby Barnard

Introduction

Jacqueline Hill and Mary Ann Lyons

Part I

Historiography and Religious Polarisation, c.1600-c.1938

1. Towards a Catholic history for a Catholic nation: the contribution of Irish émigré scholars in Europe, c.1580–c.1630

Mary Ann Lyons

2. Writing about eucharistic belief and practice among historians of Protestantism in seventeenth-century Ireland
Evie Monaghan

3. Telling the Presbyterian story in eighteenth-century Ireland: John McBride and James Kirkpatrick

Robert Armstrong

4. Laying the nineteenth-century foundations: contributions from a Catholic and a Protestant scholar in the 1820s

Jacqueline Hill

5. Writing medieval Irish religious history in the nineteenth century
Elizabeth Boyle

6. William Dool Killen (1806-1902): a Presbyterian perspective on Irish ecclesiastical history
Laurence Kirkpatrick

7. History-writing, collective memory and identity in an Irish context: George V. Jourdan and R. Dudley Edwards
Miriam Moffitt

Part II

Ideology and practice: perceptions and uses of the religious past in the wider Irish community, c.1700-1980

8. Preaching history, 1749: the Belfast sermons of Gilbert Kennedy and James Saurin

Raymond Gillespie

9. Bishop O'Beirne and his church-building programme: the Church of Ireland and pre-Reformation Christianity

Caroline Gallagher

10. Negotiating the middle ground: Thomas Moore on religion and Irish nationalism

John B. Roney

11. Using the Irish language to further the aims of two bible societies: an analysis of Irish-language bibles in the Russell Library, Maynooth

Barbara McCormack

12. History and destiny in the making of the Irish Catholic spiritual empire

Irene Whelan

13. Religion as identity: the Church of Ireland's 1932 Patrician celebrations

Ian D'Alton

14. 'Patrick, the first churchman' in the Protestant vision of Ernest Bateman of Booterstown (1886-1979)

Eugenio F. Biagini

Part III

Religious history: practice and reconciliation c.1980s to the present

15. The 1641 depositions and the history classroom
Eamon Darcy

16. St. Patrick's Day: commemoration, conflict and Conciliation, 1900-2013

Brian Walker

17. Perceptions of Irish religious history among community activists in Northern Ireland, 2010-2013

John Wolffe

18. Reconciling memories reconsidered: reflections on a 1988 Irish reconciliation classic in light of three decades of scholarship and political experience

Joseph Liechty

Select bibliography

O autorze

Jacqueline Hill is Professor Emerita at NUI Maynooth, Republic of Ireland, with an interest in 18th and 19th century Irish history, especially religious and political history. She is a member of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Irish Academy, and is secretary to the Board of Management of Irish Historical Studies. Her publications include From Patriots to Unionists: Dublin Civic Politics and Irish Protestant Patriotism, 1660-1840 (1997), and (as editor), A New History of Ireland, vii: 1921-84 (2003; 2010 paperback edn).

Mary Ann Lyons is Professor of History at NUI Maynooth, Republic of Ireland, former joint Editor of Irish Historical Studies; President of the Irish Historical Society; President and Conference Secretary of the Catholic Historical Society of Ireland; former Chairperson of the Irish Committee for Historical Sciences; and member of the Royal Irish Academy Historical Studies Committee. Her publications include France and Ireland, 1500–1610: politics, migration and trade (2003; 2015 paperback edn) and Church and Society in County Kildare, c.1470–1547 (2000).