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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
PART I
1. Talk of population: the clergy and emigration in principle
2. The emigrant’s friend?: the clergy and emigration in practice
3. ‘Scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd’: the pastoral responses of the Irish churches to emigration
PART II
4. The battlefield against popery: emigration and sectarian rivalry
5. The spiritual empire at home: emigration and the spread of Irish religious influence
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index

Population Providence and Empire

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 31/12/2014
      ISBN13: 9780719090196, 978-0719090196
      ISBN10: 719090199

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      PART I
      1. Talk of population: the clergy and emigration in principle
      2. The emigrant’s friend?: the clergy and emigration in practice
      3. ‘Scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd’: the pastoral responses of the Irish churches to emigration
      PART II
      4. The battlefield against popery: emigration and sectarian rivalry
      5. The spiritual empire at home: emigration and the spread of Irish religious influence
      Conclusion
      Select bibliography
      Index

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