RT Book
T1 Ireland's empire: the Roman Catholic Church in the English-speaking world, 1829-1914
A1 Barr, Colin 1974-
LA English
PP Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, USA Port Melbourne, Australia New Delhi, India Singapore
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1668271842
AB "In the English-speaking world Catholicism has long been associated with the Irish. As the St. Benedict's Young Men's Society of Sydney, Australia, boasted in 1861, 'in every clime, in the dark forests of America, beyond the Rocky Mountains, in the Islands of the Pacific Ocean, in the burning deserts of Africa, on the hot plains of Hindostan, in the wild bush of Australia, the priests of Ireland are to be found spreading and cultivating the holy religion of St. Patrick.' In many places and for many people Irish and Catholic became synonymous: as the index to James Jupp's recent study The English in Australia put it, for Catholics 'see also Irish' and for the Irish 'see also Catholics'. This conflation remains true for many of the some 70 million people who today claim Irish ancestry, and despite the migration of millions of Italians, Germans, Croats, Poles, and many others, Catholicism in the anglosphere retains in many places a distinctively green hue. This has had several consequences, among them that the clerical sexual abuse crisis roiling the Catholic Church has at times seemed to be a largely Irish phenomenon; it has not gone unnoticed that what linked scandal-ridden places such as the eastern United States, Newfoundland, or Australia (and indeed Ireland itself) was a long-standing Irish ecclesiastical domination. This is neither entirely accurate - the scandals have crossed borders and ethnicities, as recent events in Germany, the Netherlands, and Chile have made clear - nor attributable to some mysterious flaw in the Irish character"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BX1505
SN 9781107040922
K1 Catholic Church : Ireland : History : 19th century
K1 Catholic Church : Ireland : History : 20th century
K1 Catholic Church : History : 19th century
K1 Catholic Church : History : 20th century
K1 Irish : Foreign countries : History : 19th century
K1 Irish : Foreign countries : History : 20th century
K1 English-speaking countries
K1 Ireland : Emigration and immigration : History : 19th century
K1 Ireland : Emigration and immigration : History : 20th century