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Loading... Population, providence and empire : the churches and emigration from nineteenth-century Irelandby Sarah Roddy
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Over seven million people left Ireland over the course of the nineteenth century. This book is the first to put that huge population change in its religious context, by asking how the Irish Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian churches responded to mass emigration. Did they facilitate it, object to it, or limit it? Were the three Irish churches themelves changed by this demographic upheaval? Focusing on the effects of emigration on Ireland rather than its diaspora, and merging two of the most important phenomena in the story of modern Ireland - mass emigration and religious change - this study No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)941.5081History and Geography Europe British Isles IrelandLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |