Irish And Catholic

Author : Derek Scally
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781844885282

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The Best Catholics in the World by Derek Scally Pdf

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2021 'A great achievement . . . brilliant, engaging and essential' Colm Tóibín 'At once intimate and epic, this is a landmark book' Fintan O'Toole When Dubliner Derek Scally goes to Christmas Eve Mass on a visit home from Berlin, he finds more memories than congregants in the church where he was once an altar boy. Not for the first time, the collapse of the Catholic Church in Ireland brings to mind the fall of another powerful ideology - East German communism. While Germans are engaging earnestly with their past, Scally sees nothing comparable going on in his native land. So he embarks on a quest to unravel the tight hold the Church had on the Irish. He travels the length and breadth of Ireland and across Europe, going to Masses, novenas, shrines and seminaries, talking to those who have abandoned the Church and those who have held on, to survivors and campaigners, to writers, historians, psychologists and many more. And he has probing and revealing encounters with Vatican officials, priests and religious along the way. The Best Catholics in the World is the remarkable result of his three-year journey. With wit, wisdom and compassion Scally gives voice and definition to the murky and difficult questions that face a society coming to terms with its troubling past. It is both a lively personal odyssey and a resonant and gripping work of reporting that is a major contribution to the story of Ireland. 'Reflective, textured, insightful and original ... rich with history, interrogation and emotional intelligence' Diarmaid Ferriter, Irish Times 'An unblinking look at the collapse of the Church and Catholic deference in Ireland. Excellent and timely' John Banville, The Sunday Times 'Engaging and incisive' Caelainn Hogan, author of Republic of Shame 'Remarkable . . . Essential reading for anyone concerned about history and forgetting' Michael Harding 'Fair-minded . . . thoughtful' Melanie McDonagh, The Times 'Very pacey and entertaining . . . and it changed how I regard Ireland and our history for good. Fantastic' Oliver Callan 'Original, thought-provoking and very engaging' Marie Collins 'A provocative insight into a time that many would rather forget' John Boyne 'Challenging' Mary McAleese 'Explores this subject in a way that I've never seen before' Hugh Linehan, Irish Times

Author : Oliver Rafferty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Christianity and politics
ISBN : 1846825830

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Violence, Politics and Catholicism in Ireland by Oliver Rafferty Pdf

This collection of essays looks at the interrelated themes of Catholicism, violence and politics in the Irish context in the 19th and 20th centuries. Although much effort was expended by institutional Catholicism in trying to curb the violent propensities of the Fenians in the 19th century and the IRA in the 20th, its efforts were largely unsuccessful. Ironically, Catholicism had greater achievements to boast of in its influence in the British Empire as a whole than over its wayward flock in Ireland. But there was a cost in the church's commitment to British imperial expansion that did not always sit easily with growing nationalist expectations in Ireland. Although it provided support for the British forces in the First World War, by the time of the Second World War the church's views of that conflict differed little from those of the government of independent Ireland, although there were sufficient differences that ensured Catholicism was not just nationalism at prayer. These and other issues such as religious perceptions of the Famine, Cardinal Cullen's role in shaping the ethos of Irish Catholicism and the role of memory, including religious memory, in Irish violence combine to make this a fascinating study. [Subject: History, Conflict Studies, IRA, Catholicism, Irish Studies, European Studies]

Author : Patrick J. Corish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015010451063

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The Irish Catholic Experience by Patrick J. Corish Pdf

Author : Emmet J. Larkin
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813205946

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The Historical Dimensions of Irish Catholicism by Emmet J. Larkin Pdf

In three short essays (first published as articles in The American Historical Review), Larkin analyzes the economic, social, and political context of nineteenth-century Ireland.

Author : Louise Fuller
Publisher : Gill
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : NWU:35556037475977

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Irish Catholicism Since 1950 by Louise Fuller Pdf

Louise Fuller sets the Church's role in its historical perspective before considering the triumphant institution of the 1950s. It was a Church of piety and ritual: mass attendance, church building, processions, pilgrimages, the erection of crosses, statues and grottos, the widespread dissemination of devotional literature and the cult of indulgences were its distinguishing characteristics. The rising prosperity of the '60s, plus the effects of the Vatican Council, began the liberalisation of Irish society. The bishops reacted defensively. Their conservatism stimulated the emergence of a Catholic intelligentsia, propagating more liberal attitudes and championing the new theology. The '70s and '80s saw a Church more open to liberation theology, to ecumenism and to issues of justice and peace generally, albeit change was gradual and piecemeal. The real revolution did not come until the 1990s, when a succession of clerical sexual scandals fatally subverted the unique moral authority of the Church which had been its greatest strength.

Author : John J. Ó Ríordáin
Publisher : Columba Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000067606636

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Irish Catholic Spirituality by John J. Ó Ríordáin Pdf

O Riordain traces the fortunes of Irish Catholic Spirituality from its Celtic origins, through the reforms of the late medieval period, the influences of the Reformation, and the dramatic and traumatic nineteenth-century changes that revolutionized and, in many ways, vandalized the traditional Irish approach to God. "When the church is seen as institution only, it is difficult for people on the margins who are more attuned to traditional faith-ways to maintain comfortable links with it. Too often church membership and practice is reduced to being `all in' or `all out'. The criterion for belonging is narrowed down to only one element of the many-splendored Christian tradition. At her wise and generous best, the church has always been relaxed and generous about her boundaries."

Author : Lawrence J. Taylor
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0812215206

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Occasions of Faith by Lawrence J. Taylor Pdf

Devotional "occasions" or experiences by Irish Catholics form the crux of this powerful, first book-length anthropological study of Irish Catholicism. Rich in ethnographical material, wide-ranging archival sources, insightful cultural observations, vivid accounts of individual experiences, and thoughtful scrutiny of religious questions and theories illuminate twenty years of ethnographic fieldwork. From these varied resources Lawrence Taylor creates a memorable account of the forces that shape local forms of Catholicism in southwest Donegal.

Author : David Carroll Cochran,John C. Waldmeir
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498502535

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The Catholic Church in Ireland Today by David Carroll Cochran,John C. Waldmeir Pdf

From a Church that once enjoyed devotional loyalty, political influence, and institutional power unrivaled in Europe, the Catholic Church in Ireland now faces collapse. Devastated by a series of reports on clerical sexual abuse, challenged publicly during several political battles, and painfully aware of plunging Mass attendance, the Irish Church today is confronted with the loss of its institutional legitimacy. This study is the first international and interdisciplinary attempt to consider the scope of the problem, analyze issues that are crucial to the Irish context, and identify signs of both resilience and renewal. In addition to an overview of the current status and future directions of Irish Catholicism, The Catholic Church in Ireland Today examines specific issues such as growing secularism, the changing image of Irish bishops, generational divides, Catholic migrants to Ireland, the abuse crisis and responses in Ireland and the United States, Irish missionaries, the political role of Irish priests, the 2012 Dublin Eucharistic Congress, and contemplative strands in Irish identity. This book identifies the key issues that students of Irish society and others interested in Catholic culture must examine in order to understand the changing roles of religion in the contemporary world.

Author : Donald Harman Akenson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773561533

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Small Differences by Donald Harman Akenson Pdf

The assumption that Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics are fundamentally different is central to modern Irish history. There are hundreds of books and thousands of articles that either presuppose the existence of Irish Catholic-Protestant differences

Author : Elaine Feeney
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771964449

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As You Were by Elaine Feeney Pdf

Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize • Winner of the 2021 Kate O'Brien Award • Winner of the 2021 Dalkey Emerging Writer Award Sinéad Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret. No-one knows it: not her fellow patients in a failing hospital, and certainly not her family. She has confided only in Google and a shiny magpie. But she can't go on like this, tirelessly trying to outstrip her past and in mortal fear of her future. Across the ward, Margaret Rose is running her chaotic family from her rose-gold Nokia. In the neighbouring bed, Jane, rarely but piercingly lucid, is searching for a decent bra and for someone to listen. And Sinéad needs them both. As You Were is about intimate histories, institutional failures, the kindness of strangers, and the darkly present past of modern Ireland; about women's stories and women's struggles; about seizing the moment to be free. Wildly funny, desperately tragic, inventive and irrepressible, As You Were introduces a brilliant voice in Irish fiction with a book that is absolutely of our times.

Author : O'Dwyer Tony
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Child abuse
ISBN : 1527237354

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Betrayal by Silence by O'Dwyer Tony Pdf

Author : Matthew O'Conor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1813
Category : Catholics
ISBN : NYPL:33433081948402

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The History of the Irish Catholics from the Settlement in 1691 by Matthew O'Conor Pdf

Author : Louise Fuller,John Littleton (Fr.),Eamon Maher
Publisher : Columba Press (IE)
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015074220552

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Irish and Catholic? by Louise Fuller,John Littleton (Fr.),Eamon Maher Pdf

This book examines the changed, and changing, face of Irish Catholicism and Irish Catholic identity at the beginning of the third millennium. There has never been any formal philosophical training in the Irish educational system that allows space for the type of intellectual engagement with issues of a religious nature that characterises a society like France, for example. So Irish and Catholic is in some ways an attempt to fill a void and to launch a debate that is absolutely necessary if we are to come to terms with a vastly changed socio-religious landscape that could effectively be termed as 'post-Catholic.' The essays are written by people who are both intimately associated with the Catholic Church in their role as priests and commentators, or who have an interest in the topic from a literary, theoretical or historical perspective. It is the different prisms and lenses through which the issue of Irish Catholic identity - or identities - is examined that makes this such a challenging and fascinating study. It avoids the danger of putting forward an apologia for the church or of embarking on an irrational attack on perceived abuses within the institution.

Author : Pat Carey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1593301235

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Growing Up Irish Catholic, and Surviving My Mom's Eleven Sisters by Pat Carey Pdf

From wedding disasters and family dance recitals to fatherly lessons on homosexuality and timeshare scams, this book is a collection from the author's low-budget childhood.

Author : Mary Kenny
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015041047203

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Goodbye to Catholic Ireland by Mary Kenny Pdf

En personlig skildring af 1900-tallets Irland med vægten på den katolske kirkes betydning for den historiske og samfundsmæssige udvikling