Memorials of Those who Suffered for the Catholic Faith in Ireland in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries
Author: Myles William Patrick O'Reilly
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 476
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Sacred and Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland since 1914
Author: John Wolffe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-11-28
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1350019283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring and immediately after the First World War, there was a merging of Christian and nationalist traditions of martyrdom, expressed in the design of war cemeteries and war memorials, and the state funeral of the Unknown Warrior in 1920. John Wolffe explores the subsequent development of these traditions of 'sacred' and 'secular' martyrdom, analysing the ways in which they operated - sometimes in parallel, sometimes merged together and sometimes in conflict with each other. Particular topics explored include the Protestant commemoration of Marian and missionary martyrs, and the Roman Catholic campaign for the canonization of the 'saints and martyrs of England'. Secular martyrdom is discussed in relation to military conflicts especially the Second World War and the Falklands. In Ireland there was a particularly persistent merging of sacred and secular martyrdom in the wake of the Easter Rising of 1916 although by the time of the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' in the later twentieth-century these traditions diverged. In covering these themes, the book also offers historical and comparative context for understanding present-day acts of martyrdom in the form of suicide attacks.
Catholicism in Ulster, 1603-1983
Author: Oliver Rafferty
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781570030253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCatholicism's impact in Northern Ireland--For sale in the U.S., its dependencies, & Canada only.
Ireland
Author: Paul Bew
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2007-08-16
Total Pages: 632
ISBN-13: 0191518662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe French revolution had an electrifying impact on Irish society. The 1790s saw the birth of modern Irish republicanism and Orangeism, whose antagonism remains a defining feature of Irish political life. The 1790s also saw the birth of a new approach to Ireland within important elements of the British political elite, men like Pitt and Castlereagh. Strongly influenced by Edmund Burke, they argued that Britain's strategic interests were best served by a policy of catholic emancipation and political integration in Ireland. Britain's failure to achieve this objective, dramatised by the horrifying tragedy of the Irish famine of 1846-50, in which a million Irish died, set the context for the emergence of a popular mass nationalism, expressed in the Fenian, Parnell, and Sinn Fein movements, which eventually expelled Britain from the greater part of the island. This book reassesses all the key leaders of Irish nationalism - Tone, O'Connell, Butt, Parnell, Collins, and de Valera - alongside key British political leaders such as Peel and Gladstone in the nineteenth century, or Winston Churchill and Tony Blair in the twentieth century. A study of the changing ideological passions of the modern Irish question, this analysis is, however, firmly placed in the context of changing social and economic realities. Using a vast range of original sources, Paul Bew holds together the worlds of political class in London, Dublin, and Belfast in one coherent analysis which takes the reader all the way from the society of the United Irishman to the crisis of the Good Friday Agreement.
The Devil from over the Sea
Author: Sarah Covington
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-03-24
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 0192587676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Ireland, few figures have generated more hatred than Oliver Cromwell, whose seventeenth-century conquest, massacres, and dispossessions would endure in the social memory for ages to come. The Devil from over the Sea explores the many ways in which Cromwell was remembered and sometimes conveniently 'forgotten' in historical, religious, political, and literary texts, according to the interests of different communities across time. Cromwell's powerful afterlife in Ireland, however, cannot be understood without also investigating his presence in folklore and the landscape, in ruins and curses. Nor can he be separated from the idea of the 'Cromwellian': a term which came to elicit an entire chain of contemptuous associations that would begin after his invasion and assume a wholly new force in the nineteenth century. What emerges from all these memorializing traces is a multitudinous Cromwell who could be represented as brutal, comic, sympathetic, or satanic. He could be discarded also, tellingly, from the accounts of the past, and especially by those which viewed him as an embarrassment or worse. In addition to exploring the many reasons why Cromwell was so vehemently remembered or forgotten in Ireland, Sarah Covington finally uncovers the larger truths conveyed by sometimes fanciful or invented accounts. Contrary to being damaging examples of myth-making, the memorializations contained in martyrologies, folk tales, or newspaper polemics were often productive in cohering communities, or in displaying agency in the form of 'counter-memories' that claimed Cromwell for their own and reshaped Irish history in the process.
The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume IV
Author: James H. Murphy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-09
Total Pages: 754
ISBN-13: 0198187319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume IV: The Irish Book in English 1800-1891 details the story of the book in Ireland during the nineteenth century, when Ireland was integrated into the United Kingdom. The chapters in this volume explore book production and distribution and the differing of ways in which publishing existed in Dublin, Belfast, and the provinces.
Collection of Pamphlets on the Catholic Church in Ireland
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Published: 1808
Total Pages: 502
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Author: Myles O'Reilly
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-03-21
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780365150312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Memorials of Those Who Suffered for the Catholic Faith in Ireland: In the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries Christians are told to remember that we have a great cloud of witnesses over our head, and' are called on, laying aside every weight of sin which surrounds'us, to run by patience to the fight proposed, strengthened by the example of the saints, and are reminded that the just seem to the eyes of the foolish to die, but indeed are in peace. Hence, from the first ages of Christianity, it was looked upon as a sacred duty to preserve the memory of the lives and deaths of those who had served Christ, and who had been deemed worthy to suffer for his name the memory of their deaths even more than that of their lives, because, while death to the pagan was the final end, (the limit to the labors and successes of great men, ) to the Christian it was the very instrument of Victory - the moment of triumph to the former, it was the termination of existence 5 to the latter, it was the commencement of the real life: for the former, the cause fell with its defender; for the latter, the triumph of the truth was secured by the death of its martyr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
