Eamon Maher, Eugene O'Brien

Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism

From Galway to Cloyne and beyond

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Produktbeschreibung

This book of essays will appeal to anyone interested in the dismantling of Ireland's cultural attachment to Catholicism over the past four decades.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781526101068
• ISBN-10: 1526101068
• Artikelnr.: 47830272

Autorenporträt

Eugene O'Brien teaches at the University of Limerick and at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. He also works as a tutor for Oscail, the Irish distance learning project. He has published two books, The Question of Irish Identity in the Writings of William Butler Yeats and James Joyce and The Epistemology of Nationalism. He has published over twenty articles in various international academic journals. He is also the commissioning editor of a series of Irish Studies monographs entitled Ireland in Theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Eamon Maher and Eugene O'Brien Part I: Tracing change and
setting the context 1. 'The times they are a changin'': Tracing the
transformation of Irish Catholicism through the eyes of a journalist -
Patsy McGarry 2. Revisiting the faith of our fathers ... and reimagining
its relevance in the context of twenty-first-century Ireland - Louise
Fuller 3. Dethroning Irish Catholicism: Church, State and modernity in
contemporary Ireland - David Carroll Cochran 4. Refracted visions: Street
photography, humanism and the loss of innocence - Justin Carville 5.
Contemporary Irish Catholicism: A time of hope! - Vincent Twomey Part II:
Going against the tide 6. The poetry of accumulation: Irish-American fables
of resistance - Eamonn Wall 7. Prophetic voices or complicit functionaries?
Irish priests and the unravelling of a culture - Eamon Maher 8. Tony
Flannery: A witness in an age of witnesses - Catherine Maignant 9. 'Belief
shifts': Ireland's referendum and the journey from Gemeinschaft to
Gesellschaft - Eugene O'Brien Part III: Challenges in the here and now 10.
Faith, hope and clarity? A new church for the unhoused - Michael Cronin 11.
The people in the pews: Silent and betrayed - Patricia Casey 12.
Irreconcilable differences? The fraught relationship between women and the
Catholic Church in Ireland - Sharon Tighe-Mooney 13. The Catholic twilight
- Joe Cleary Index