Ireland's empire: the Roman Catholic Church in the English-speaking world, 1829-1914
"In the English-speaking world Catholicism has long been associated with the Irish. As the St. Benedict's Young Men's Society of Sydney, Australia, boasted in 1861, 'in every clime, in the dark forests of America, beyond the Rocky Mountains, in the Islands of the Pacific Ocean, i...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
English language area
/ Catholic church
/ History 1829-1914
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Catholic Church
History 20th century
B Catholic Church (Ireland) History 19th century B English-speaking countries B Ireland Emigration and immigration History 19th century B Catholic Church History 19th century B Ireland Emigration and immigration History 20th century B Catholic Church (Ireland) History 20th century B Irish (Foreign countries) History 19th century B Irish (Foreign countries) History 20th century |
| Summary: | "In the English-speaking world Catholicism has long been associated with the Irish. As the St. Benedict's Young Men's Society of Sydney, Australia, boasted in 1861, 'in every clime, in the dark forests of America, beyond the Rocky Mountains, in the Islands of the Pacific Ocean, in the burning deserts of Africa, on the hot plains of Hindostan, in the wild bush of Australia, the priests of Ireland are to be found spreading and cultivating the holy religion of St. Patrick.' In many places and for many people Irish and Catholic became synonymous: as the index to James Jupp's recent study The English in Australia put it, for Catholics 'see also Irish' and for the Irish 'see also Catholics'. This conflation remains true for many of the some 70 million people who today claim Irish ancestry, and despite the migration of millions of Italians, Germans, Croats, Poles, and many others, Catholicism in the anglosphere retains in many places a distinctively green hue. This has had several consequences, among them that the clerical sexual abuse crisis roiling the Catholic Church has at times seemed to be a largely Irish phenomenon; it has not gone unnoticed that what linked scandal-ridden places such as the eastern United States, Newfoundland, or Australia (and indeed Ireland itself) was a long-standing Irish ecclesiastical domination. This is neither entirely accurate - the scandals have crossed borders and ethnicities, as recent events in Germany, the Netherlands, and Chile have made clear - nor attributable to some mysterious flaw in the Irish character"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1107040922 |