Irish Catholic identities

Irish Catholic identitiesAuthor: Oliver P. Rafferty ISBN: 9780719084959 Publisher: Manchester University Press Year first published: 01 Oct 2013 Pages: 400 Format: Hardback What does it mean to be Irish? Are the predicates Catholic and Irish so inextricably linked that it is impossible to have one and not the other? Does the process of secularisation in modern times mean that Catholicism is no longer a touchstone of what it means to be Irish? Indeed was such a paradigm ever

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