The Catholics of Ulster : a history /

"There are few communities with a bloodier history than the Catholics of Ulster. Their harsh region has always been set apart geographically from the rest of Ireland, and its uniquely savage history has marked Catholics and Protestants alike. Both communities look to the past for their sense of...

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Main Author: Elliott, Marianne, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2001]
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. From Cu Chulainn to Christianity: Religion and Society in Early Ulster
  • 2. Gaelic Ulster: Land, Lordship and People
  • 3. Religion in Ulster before the Reformation
  • 4. The Loss of the Land: Plantation and Confiscation in Seventeenth-Century Ulster
  • 5. The Merger of 'Irishness' and Catholicism in Early Modern Ulster
  • 6. Life Under the Penal Laws
  • 7. Reform to Rebellion: The Emergence of Republican Politics
  • 8. The Revival of 'Political' Catholicism
  • 9. The Famine and After: Catholic Social Classes in Nineteenth-Century Ulster
  • 10. Across the Divide: Community Relations and Sectarian Conflict before Partition
  • 11. Catholics in Northern Ireland 1920-2000
  • 12. A Resentful Belonging: Catholic Identity in the Twentieth Century.