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Irish and Catholic? : towards an understanding of identity / edited by Louise Fuller, John Littleton, and Eamon Maher.

Title
Irish and Catholic? : towards an understanding of identity / edited by Louise Fuller, John Littleton, and Eamon Maher.
Publication
Blackrock, Co. Dublin : Columba Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Fuller, Louise
  • Littleton, John, Fr.
  • Maher, Eamon
Description
256 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
"This book examines the changed, and changing face of Irish Catholicism and Irish Catholic identity at the beginning of the third millennium. The essays are written by people who are both intimately associated with the Catholic Church in their role as priests and commentators, or who have an interest in the topic from a literary, theoretical or historical perspective."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Catholic Church > Ireland
  • Catholic Church > In literature
  • Ireland > Church history
  • Ireland > Religious life and customs
Genre/Form
Church history
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Catholic identity in the Irish context / John Littleton -- Rise and fall of Roman Catholicism in Ireland / Patsy McGarry -- 'Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse ...' : Catholicism, deconstruction and postmodernity in contemporary Irish culture / Eugene O'Brien -- New Ireland and the undoing of the Catholic legacy : looking back to the future / Louise Fuller -- 'God help us!' : the media and Irish Catholicism / Colum Kenny -- Representations of Catholicism in the twentieth-century Irish novel / Eamon Maher -- 'Mulcahy taught us God' : Catholicism and survival in the poetry of Brendan Kennelly / John McDonagh -- Bad cop, good cop: dualistic theology and Stephen's neurotic response to the hellfire sermons in Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man / Brian Cosgrove -- 'I have looked on God and found him lacking' : Catholicism and homosexuality in the plays of Frank McGuinness / Kenneth Nally -- 'I'd like to be this family please' : Tom Murphy and the de/construction of the Irish Catholic family home / Sara Keating -- Trinities of transition: Catholicism in the novels and plays of Dermot Bolger / Paula Murphy -- Cultural chameleons: religion in the Ryan of Inch papers / Grace Neville -- Return to Doolin : a reflection on a changing Irish and Catholic identity / Patrick Claffey -- Catholicism and civic identity in Ireland : mapping some changes in public policy / Kevin Williams -- Decoupling Catholic and national identity : secularisation theories in the Irish context / Timothy J. White.
ISBN
  • 1856075389
  • 9781856075381
LCCN
^^2006462759
OCLC
  • 71229122
  • SCSB-10808084
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library