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Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne and Beyond
Eamon Maher
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Description for Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne and Beyond
Hardback. This book of essays will appeal to anyone interested in the dismantling of Ireland's cultural attachment to Catholicism over the past four decades. Num Pages: 248 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBTB; HRAX; HRCC7; HRLM; JFSR; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abuse in that diocese in 2011. The young people awaiting the Pope's address in Galway were entertained by two of Ireland's most charismatic clerics, Bishop Eamon Casey and Fr Michael Cleary, both of...
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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526101068
SKU
V9781526101068
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99-15
About Eamon Maher
Eamon Maher is Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in IT Tallaght, where he also lectures in Humanities Eugene O'Brien is Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College and Director of the Institute for Irish Studies -- .
Reviews for Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne and Beyond
'A new book on the issue, Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism, is highly readable.this timely study is to be recommended.' Mark Patrick Henderman is a monk of Glanstal Abbey in Limerick, The Irish Times, 27/05/2017 'We've heard the constituent elements of the process denied and exaggerated ad nauseam but this book provides them with a context and an...
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