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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Irish Catholics"”.
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The Catholic emancipation movement and the Society of United Irishmen, 1788-1798
The turmoils and character of the present-day Irish people can best be understood through a knowledge of the events which occurred and relationships that existed nearly 200 years ago. For their support of James II in 1690, the Irish Catholics were gradually placed under a system of Penal Laws. …
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The Nature and Development of Liberal Protestantism in Waterford 1800-42
… are an important theme, and the peculiarly Irish Whiggism of Sir John Newport, an important parliamentary figure in this period, is examined. The most important and defining feature of Irish liberal Protestantism in these years was their support for the removal of political disabilities …
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The Costumed Catholic: Catholics, Whiteness, and the Movies, 1928 - 1973
… examines the impact movies had on the place of Catholics of European descent in mainstream white America. Most scholars who study the history of Catholic populations in this country assume that they attained whiteness at some point. Whether with the Irish in the late nineteenth century, or more …
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Converting Catholicism: Orestes A. Brownson, Anna H. Dorsey, and Irish America, 1840-1896
… nation at large. Many native and foreign-born Catholics alike, beset by anti-Catholic pressures and an internal lack of consensus regarding the future of American Catholic identity , looked to Brownson and Dorsey to help them imagine a useable group identity , which combined their many …
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Millais’ Modern Christ: Religion and Critical Responses to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in Nineteenth Century England
… age brought to Victorian England. Catholic, Irish, and Protestant tensions had been mounting throughout the nineteenth century in England prior to the debut of the painting. Politics and law were beginning to relax restraints on Catholicism in addition to the increased immigration of Irish …