Papers by Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin
BRILL eBooks, Oct 24, 2023
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Oxford University Press eBooks, Jun 17, 2021
Chapter 4 provides an overview of the role played by migration in creating the Church of Ireland ... more Chapter 4 provides an overview of the role played by migration in creating the Church of Ireland and its body of adherents. It discusses the manner in which secular Protestants derived great benefit from their religion and the manner in which they came to emphasize religious ‘reliability’ as a touchstone of loyalty, and the central role of the rebellion of 1641 in developing Irish Protestants’ understanding of their situation and role in Ireland. The chapter demonstrates the profoundly migratory character of Early Modern Irish Protestantism and the manner in which its leadership was dominated primarily by British-born bishops and then secondarily by New English migrants, to the almost complete exclusion of figures of native provenance. As a result, both the church and its community acquired a migrant stamp which contributed to its evangelical inefficacy in Ireland.
Oxford University Press eBooks, Jun 17, 2021
Chapter 6 examines how figurative images of mobility helped to structure Irish Christians’ unders... more Chapter 6 examines how figurative images of mobility helped to structure Irish Christians’ understanding of their lives. This was common to all the traditions of the island. In addition, all drew heavily on the Bible as a fund of examples and inspirations in which themes of mobility and exile figured prominently. Of single greatest importance in this respect was the story of Exodus, and in different ways all the religious traditions of the island identified heavily with the story of the persecution and wandering of the Chosen People and their journey from Egypt to Canaan. The Babylonian captivity was another important point of reference in terms of making meaning of contemporary travails and exiles.
Hungarian Cultural Studies, Sep 6, 2017
1. Alternative establishments? Insular Catholicism and Presbyterianism - Robert Armstrong and Tad... more 1. Alternative establishments? Insular Catholicism and Presbyterianism - Robert Armstrong and Tadhg O hAnnrachain 2. 'Replant the uprooted trunk of the tree of faith': the Society of Jesus and the continental colleges for religious exiles - Thomas M. McCoog, S.J. 3. 'Genevan Jesuits': crypto-Presbyterians in England - Polly Ha 4. Riots, rescues and 'grene bowes': Catholic popular protest in Ireland, 1570-1640 - Clodagh Tait 5. Authority, agency and the reception of the Scottish national covenant of 1638 - Laura Stewart 6. The influence of the Irish Catholic clergy in shaping the religious and political allegiances of Irish Catholics, 1603-41 - David Finnegan 7. Politics and religion in the Westminster Assembly and the 'grand debate' - Chad Van Dixhoorn 8. Coping with alternatives: religious liberty in royalist thought 1642-7 - Anthony Milton 9. 'The remembrance of sweet fellowship': relationships between English and Scottish Presbyterians in the 1640s and 1650s - Ann Hughes 10. The ascent to establishment status: the Irish Catholic hierarchy of the mid-seventeenth century - Tadhg O hAnnrachain 11. The Irish alternative: Scottish and English Presbyterianism in Ireland - Robert Armstrong 12. The laity and the structure of the Catholic church in early modern Scotland - R. Scott Spurlock 13. Between Reformation and Enlightenment: Presbyterian clergy, religious liberty and intellectual change - John Coffey Index
Oxford University Press eBooks, Jun 17, 2021
Chapter 3 analyzes how religion structured and inflected the migration and internal movement of C... more Chapter 3 analyzes how religion structured and inflected the migration and internal movement of Catholics. It explores the confessional dimension of the periodic exodus of large numbers of mercenary soldiers and the development of Catholic mercantile networks in exile. It also examines how famine and war resulted in displacement of large numbers of Irish Catholics, some of whom found refuge on the continent, but many of whom perished without record.
Oxford University Press eBooks, Jun 17, 2021
Chapter 9 argues that practically the entire corpus of Irish Protestant writing of the seventeent... more Chapter 9 argues that practically the entire corpus of Irish Protestant writing of the seventeenth century is susceptible to a reading as migrant literature. It offers a series of brief case studies of particular authors and texts to demonstrate the ubiquity of migrant experience in shaping this literary production. The chapter concentrates in particular on Sir John Temple’s The Irish Rebellion, arguing that this became the ur-text of Protestant identity in Ireland, and highlights the manner in which this book gave an enduring voice to the displaced refugees of the 1641 rebellion. Other authors discussed include Andrew Stewart the Presbyterian historian, John Vesey, and his portrayal of John Bramhall, Sir James Ware, and James Ussher.
Journal of Jesuit studies, Apr 23, 2024
Oxford University Press eBooks, Jun 17, 2021
Chapter 7 analyzes the importance of quotidian patterns of mobility in sustaining and elaborating... more Chapter 7 analyzes the importance of quotidian patterns of mobility in sustaining and elaborating confessional identities. Of central importance in this regard was regular Sabbath worship, and the decline of many non-conformist sects in the island can be linked to the sheer difficulties which they experienced in this regard post-1660. The chapter also argues that the different confessions produced particular rituals of mobility which helped both to buttress the sense of internal cohesion within the community and which operated as an important signifier of group identity to outsiders. In this regard, pilgrimage emerged as a key constituent of Catholic practice and experience, while Covenant-swearing and interparochial communions may have had a similar function for Ulster Presbyterians.
Presses universitaires de Rennes eBooks, 2009
En 1500, l’archipel composé des îles Britanniques et de l’Irlande était politiquement pluriel, mê... more En 1500, l’archipel composé des îles Britanniques et de l’Irlande était politiquement pluriel, même si, officiellement au moins, on y partageait la même religion. En 1650, cet état de fait fut remis en cause. Les différentes politiques menées dans les îles étaient désormais coordonnées, mais ce remaniement avait aussi conduit à une scission religieuse. En 1500, les îles étaient régies par deux systèmes politiques indépendants et des dizaines d’autorités politiques et juridiques. Le plus petit..
Manchester University Press eBooks, 2013
Dictionary of Irish Biography, Oct 1, 2009
Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 23, 2004
This is a book about the intersection between processes of mobility and religious identity and pr... more This is a book about the intersection between processes of mobility and religious identity and practice in Early Modern Ireland. The period between c.1580 and c.1685 was one of momentous importance in terms of the establishment of different confessional identities in the island, and various typesof mobility played a key role in the development, articulation, and maintenance of separate religious communities. Part I examines the dialectic between migration and religious adherence, paying particular attention to the transnational dimension of clerical formation which played a vital role in shaping the competing Catholic, Church of Ireland, and non-conformist clergies. Part II investigates how more quotidian practices of mobility such as pilgrimage and interparochial communions helped to elaborate religious identities and the central role of figurative images of movement in structuring Christians’ understanding of their lives. The final chapters of the book analyze the extraordinary importance of migratory experience in shaping the lives and writings of the authors of key confessional identity texts. Hitherto underestimated or taken for granted, the book argues that migrants and exiles were of crucial significance in forging the self-understanding of the different religious communities of the island.
Catholic Historical Review, 2019
evolution of such treatises, their transformations from a reflection on ius ad bellum to ius in b... more evolution of such treatises, their transformations from a reflection on ius ad bellum to ius in bellum-from what was considered the right war to what should be considered the right way of fighting. This new reflection becomes the preamble to new books for soldiers (educational treatises) that come together with military reforms of the eighteenth century. A significant characteristic of the book is the successful link between the analyzed treatises and contemporary that influenced their writing. With simple but not banal writing, the book meets the interest of historians as well as common people who want to know the past. The author tries to encourage people to go deeper, providing readers with some easy-to-find bibliographical references. This attempt by Lavenia is commendable in a historical period when, more and more often, history is transformed into fiction or into anecdotes without traces of depth.
Dictionary of Irish Biography, Dec 1, 2010
Dictionary of Irish Biography, Oct 1, 2009
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