| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 284 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-268) and index. |
| Contents |
Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction. 1 The early medieval and medieval church in Ireland : The architecture of early medieval churches -- The Vikings -- Early medieval graveyards -- The medieval church -- The medieval parish -- The geography of European monasticism -- The regular orders. 2 The Gaelic church : The friars. 3 The Reformations Protestant and Catholic : Tithes until 1800 -- The Catholic Reformation -- Ruins -- The Catholic Reformation in the Pale -- Villages. 4 Death in the Irish landscape : Post-medieval graveyards -- Cillíni and leachtái -- Gravestones -- The funeral -- The politics of funerals -- Funeral rows -- Catholic cemeteries: Goldenbridge and Glasnevin -- The keen: landscape as soundscape. 5 Vernacular religion and its landscape expression : Balla (Co. Mayo): a pilgrimage site -- Narrating the landscape -- Biddy Earley: bean feasa -- Clocha breaca ("cursing stones"). 6 Irish Protestantism from the Reformation to Partition : Presbyterian churches -- Mountains and lowlands: sectarian landscapes -- Protestant villages and the linen industry -- Tithes after 1800 -- The Church of Ireland -- Church of Ireland churches after the Act of Union -- Glebe houses -- Other Protestant denominations: Quakers -- Huguenots -- Moravians -- Methodists -- Evangelicalism. 7 The Catholic revival : Catholic and the public sphere -- Catholic chapel building -- Barn chapels -- Competitive spires -- Chapel villages -- Rathnure: a chapel village -- Convents and schools. 8 Two cities, two religions: Belfast and Dublin : Northern Ireland: parallel societies -- Dublin as a Catholic city -- Catholicism new and old -- The Irish Catholic empire -- Catholicism and colonialism. 9 Catholicism in the new state : Death in contemporary Ireland -- Catholicism today -- New age, new churches. 10 Conclusion: landscape and imagination : "The Peacock's Tale" to the "Taj Micheál". Appendix: fifty national maps of religion in Ireland. Bibliography -- Index of people and places. |
| Summary |
Irish history if often past and furious and nowhere more contentiously than when discussing religion. This book is designed to be read with equal profit by those who know a little and those who know a lot about the role of religion in Irish history. It moves at a fast pace, it is extensively illustrated with fresh images and maps, it draws on diverse evidence in multiple languages and it uses examples drawn from every county in Ireland. The volume covers commentators writing in Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Latin and Spanish. The focus is on the lived experience of real people in real places in real time, rather than on the abstractions of nationality, class and race. Because religion played such a decisive role in Irish life, the book is also an oblique-angle version of Irish history, conveying a sense of how we got to be where we are, even as we leave it behind. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ireland -- Church history.
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Ireland. |
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Church history. |
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Ireland -- Historical geography.
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Historical geography. |
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Ireland -- Religion -- History.
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Religion. |
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History. |
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Ireland -- Civilization.
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Civilization. |
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Ireland -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Church history.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement.
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| Spine Title |
Religion, landscape & settlement in Ireland |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Whelan, Kevin, 1958- Religion, landscape and settlement in Ireland. Dublin : Four Courts Press in association with the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, [2018] 9781846827563 (OCoLC)1081317409 |
| ISBN |
9781846827839 (electronic book) |
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1846827833 (electronic book) |
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9781846827563 |
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1846827566 |
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