Population, providence and empire : the churches and emigration from nineteenth-century Ireland / Sarah Roddy.
Material type: TextSeries: Texts in culturePublisher: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xii, 275 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781847799777
- 1847799779
- Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century
- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
- Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects
- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
- HISTORY / Europe / France
- Emigration and immigration
- Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects
- Ireland
- 1800-1899
- 941.5081 23
- JV7711 .R63 2014eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-268) and index.
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POPULATION, PROVIDENCE AND EMPIRE: THE CHURCHES AND EMIGRATION FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND: SARAH RODDY; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I; 1. Talk of population: the clergy and emigration in principle; 2. The emigrant's friend?: the clergy and emigration in practice; 3. 'Scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd': the pastoral responses of the Irish churches to emigration; Part II; 4. The battlefield against popery: emigration and sectarian rivalry
5. The spiritual empire at home: emigration and the spread of Irish religious influenceConclusion; Select bibliography; Index
Over seven million people left Ireland over the course of the nineteenth century. This book is the first to put that huge population change in its religious context, by asking how the Irish Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian churches responded to mass emigration. Did they facilitate it, object to it, or limit it? Were the three Irish churches themelves changed by this demographic upheaval? Focusing on the effects of emigration on Ireland rather than its diaspora, and merging two of the most important phenomena in the story of modern Ireland - mass emigration and religious change - this study.
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