Representing Irish Religious Histories: Historiography, Ideology and Practice

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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
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