Religion, landscape and settlement in Ireland : from Patrick to present /
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 illustr...
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Dublin :
Four Courts Press in association with the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement,
[2018]
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Table of 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.
