The Roman Catholic Church and the Home Rule Movement in Ireland, 1870-1874

by Emmet Larkin

Overview

In this, his sixth book on the Roman Catholic church in Ireland, Larkin focuses on the church's role in the first stage of the emergence of the modern Irish political system. This system depended upon the convergence of three crucial elements — the leader, the party, and the Irish bishops as a body — and in the 1870s, these elements began to coalesce. The refusal of the bishops to come to terms with the Home Rule movement was fortunate; otherwise their dominance would have altered the shape of Irish politics.

Originally published in 1990.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807865606
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	01/27/2011
Edition description:	1
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.98(d)

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No one has a better knowledge than Larkin both of the episcopal archives in Ireland and of the relevant sources in Rome, and that knowledge has never been more powerfully deployed than in this book.—Times Literary Supplement

Editorial Reviews

"No one has a better knowledge than Larkin both of the episcopal archives in Ireland and of the relevant sources in Rome, and that knowledge has never been more powerfully deployed than in this book."--"Times Literary Supplement"

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