When God Took Sides: Religion and Identity in Irish History - Unfinished History

by Marianne Elliott and Allan Leonard

Book Overview

The struggle between Catholic and Protestant has shaped Irish history since the Reformation. But how do Catholics and Protestants see each other? And how do they view their own communities and what these communities stand for? Tracing the history of religious identities in Ireland over the last three centuries, Marianne Elliott argues that these two questions are inextricably linked and that the identity of both Catholics and Protestants is shaped...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199206937
• ISBN13: 9780199206933
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 5.4"