South Tipperary, 1570-1841 : religion, land, and rivalry
This study explores the interaction between the Protestant and Roman Catholic communities of South Tipperary from their earliest divergence c.1570 to the culmination of emancipation, c.1841. Particular attention is given to the ultimately~unsuccessful strategies of the ruling Protestant establishment to secure hegemony in the region and thereby dominate the Roman Catholic majority. Making extensive use of maps to illustrate continuity and change in church and state organisations, this book analyzes how the ruled majority population accommodated itself to the changing political situation, and shows how it progressively challenged and undermined the Protestant establishment through counter-strategies of resistance. -- Publisher description
Church history
336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9781851828913, 1851828915
61302744
The reformation of sixteenth-century identity formation
Rejuvenation and reform : the re-organization of Roman Catholicism
Incompetence and inertia : the visitations of the established Church
Conquest and reaction : the plantation of Munster and the 1641 rebellion
New English settlement strategies and state-sponsored garrisons
The landed estate and corporate towns : anchors of settler hegemony
Rationalization and renewal : the territorial organization of the established church
The Roman Catholic gentry safe-house network and the correspondence of Archbishop John Brenan vis-à-vis Church territorial organization
'Careful of their breeding' : strategies of the Protestant dissenters
Strategies of consolidation : the charter schools and estate colonies
'A costly, hollow gesture' : late eighteenth-century Anglican expansion and the status of the Protestant dissenters
Renewal and response : inter-church rivalry and the carving out of territory
Confrontation and consequence : the orchestration of anti-establishment resistance and defence of Protestant ascendancy
The gradual decline of Protestant hegemony : establishment reform in the aftermath of Roman Catholic emancipation