Irish Catholic identities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Irish Catholic identities write by Oliver P. Rafferty. This book was released on 2015-06-01. Irish Catholic identities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What does it mean to be Irish? Are the predicates Catholic and Irish so inextricably linked that it is impossible to have one and not the other? Does the process of secularisation in modern times mean that Catholicism is no longer a touchstone of what it means to be Irish? Indeed was such a paradigm ever true? These are among the fundamental issues addressed in this work, which examines whether distinct identity formation can be traced over time. The book delineates the course of historical developments which complicated the process of identity formation in the Irish context, when by turns Irish Catholics saw themselves as battling against English hegemony or the Protestant Reformation. Without doubt the Reformation era cast a long shadow over how Irish Catholics would see themselves. But the process of identity formation was of much longer duration. Newly available in paperback, this work traces the elements which have shaped how the Catholic Irish identified themselves, and explores the political, religious and cultural dimensions of the complex picture which is Irish Catholic identity. The essays represent a systematic attempt to explore the fluidity of the components that make up Catholic identity in Ireland.
Religion, Class and Identity
Religion, Class and Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion, Class and Identity write by Mary J. Hickman. This book was released on 1997-03. Religion, Class and Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the experience of the Irish Catholic working class and their descendants in Britain as a minority experience which has been profoundly shaped by the responses of both the British state and the Catholic church to Irish migrants. The book challenges notions that the Irish have smoothly assimilated to British society and demonstrates how the reception and policies that greeted the Irish in 19th century Britain created the framework within which the experiences of Irish migrants to Britain in the 20th century have been formed. Research about the education of Irish Catholics is used to investigate how a labour migrant group who, in the 19th century were large, visible and problematized were socially constructed as invisible by the mid-20th century through a process of incorporation and denationalization.
Anglo-Irish Identities, 1571-1845
Anglo-Irish Identities, 1571-1845 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anglo-Irish Identities, 1571-1845 write by David A. Valone. This book was released on 2008. Anglo-Irish Identities, 1571-1845 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a series of essays that examine the ideological, personal, and political difficulties faced by the group variously termed the Anglo-Irish, the Protestant Ascendancy, or the English in Ireland, a group that existed in a world of contested ideological, political, and cultural identities. At the root of this conflicted sense of self was an acute awareness among the Anglo-Irish of their liminal position as colonial dominators in Ireland who were viewed as other both by the Catholic natives of Ireland and by their English kinsmen. The work in this volume is highly interdisciplinary, bringing to bear examination of issues that are historical, literary, economic, and sociological. Contributors investigate how individuals experienced the ambiguities and conflicts of identity formation in a colonial society, how writers fought the economic and ideological superiority of the English, how the cooption of Gaelic history and culture was a political strategy for the Anglo-Irish, and how literary texts contributed to the emergence of national consciousness. In seeking to understand and trace the complex process of identity formation in early modern Ireland the essays in this volume attest to its tenuous, dynamic, and necessarily incomplete nature. David A. Valone is an Assistant Professor of History at Quinnipiac University. Jill Marie Bradbury is an Assistant Professor of English at Gallaudet University.
Meanings of Life in Contemporary Ireland
Meanings of Life in Contemporary Ireland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meanings of Life in Contemporary Ireland write by T. Inglis. This book was released on 2014-11-06. Meanings of Life in Contemporary Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The struggle to create and sustain meaning in our everyday lives is fought using cultural ingredients to spin the webs of meaning that keep us going. To help reveal the complexity and intricacy of the webs of meaning in which they are suspended, Tom Inglis interviewed one-hundred people in their native home of Ireland to discover what was most important and meaningful for them in their lives. Inglis believes language is a medium: there is never an exact correspondence between what is said and what is felt and understood. Using a variety of theoretical lenses developed within sociology and anthropology, Inglis places their lives within the context of Ireland's social and cultural transformations, and of longer-term processes of change such as increased globalisation, individualisation, and informalisation.
When God Took Sides
When God Took Sides - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When God Took Sides write by Marianne Elliott. This book was released on 2009-09-24. When God Took Sides available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The struggle between Catholic and Protestant has shaped Irish history since the Reformation, with tragic consequences up to the present day. But how do Catholics and Protestants in Ireland see each other? And how do they view their own communities and what these communities stand for? Tracing the history of religious identities in Ireland over the last three centuries, Marianne Elliott argues that these two questions are inextricably linked and that the identity of both Catholics and Protestants is shaped by the way that each community views the other. Cutting through the layers of myths, lies, and half-truths that make up the vision that Catholics and Protestants have of each other, she looks at how mutual religious stereotypes were developed over the centuries, how they were perpetuated and entrenched, and how they have defined modern identities and shaped Ireland's historical destiny, from the independence struggle and partition to the Troubles of the last four decades.
