Religion and Greater Ireland: Christianity and Irish Global Networks, 1750-1950 Volume 2

by Hilary M. Carey and Colin Barr

Impelled by economic deprivation at home and spiritual ambition abroad, nineteenth-century Irish clerics and laypeople reshaped the many sites where they came to pray, preach, teach, trade, and settle. So decisive was the role of religion in the worlds of Irish settlement that it helped to create a "Greater Ireland" that encompassed the entire English-speaking world and beyond. Rejecting the popular notion that the Irish were passive victims of imperial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773545700
• ISBN13: 9780773545700
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"