Ireland's Empire: The Roman Catholic Church in the English-Speaking World, 1829-1914

by Colin Barr

How did the Irish stay Irish? Why are Irish and Catholic still so often synonymous in the English-speaking world? Ireland's Empire is the first book to examine the complex relationship between Irish migrants and Roman Catholicism in the nineteenth century on a truly global basis. Drawing on more than 100 archives on five continents, Colin Barr traces the spread of Irish Roman Catholicism across the English-speaking world and explains how the Catholic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107040922
• ISBN13: 9781107040922
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 580 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"