This title tells the story of Father Robert O'Keeffe of Callan and his conflict with ecclesiastical authority. It traces the Callan Schools Affair from its origins in 1868 to O'Keeffe's death in 1881.
“This is a fine and impressive piece of work that makes an original contribution to nineteenth-century Irish history generally and to Irish education specifically. It will be welcomed by scholars who
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 Church became the vehicle for Irish diasporic identity in the United States, Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and India between 1829 and 1914. The world these Irish Catholic bishops, priests, nuns, and laity created endured long into the twentieth century, and its legacy is still present today.
From choosing the right equipment to training techniques and exercises, Idiot's Guides: Triathlon Training covers everything any new competitor needs to know to successfully finish any sprint or inter
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
As Italy and Ireland both struggled against dominant neighbors, they also sought to create a collective identity--"provinces resolved to be nations." The nineteenth century saw a rapid diffusion of in
