Ireland's Empire: The Roman Catholic Church in the English-Speaking World, 1829-1914 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107040922)

How did the Irish stay Irish? Why are Irish and Catholic still so often synonymous in the English-speaking world? Ireland's Empire is the first book to examine the complex relationship between Irish migrants and Roman Catholicism in the nineteenth century on a truly global basis. Drawing on more than 100 archives on five continents, Colin Barr traces the spread of Irish Roman Catholicism across the English-speaking world and explains how the Catholic Church became the vehicle for Irish diasporic identity in the United States, Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and India between 1829 and 1914. The world these Irish Catholic bishops, priests, nuns, and laity created endured long into the twentieth century, and its legacy is still present today.

Author: Colin Barr
ISBN-10: 1107040922
ISBN-13: 9781107040922
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/16/2020
Pages: 580
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2020