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Goodbye To Catholic Ireland

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Few countires have changed more dramatically in the last decades of the 20th century than Ireland. And the most dramatic aspect of all has been the alteration from "Catholic Ireland" to the "post-Catholic", and sometimes "anti-Catholic" Emerald Isle.



Where once the Irish identity was almost inextricably bound up with Catholicism, today the modern Irish are inclined to dista
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Paperback, 372 pages
Published September 1st 2000 by New Island Books (first published March 13th 1997)
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Louise Culmer
Jun 12, 2011 rated it really liked it
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Mary Kenny's survey of the history of Ireland from the late 19th to late 20th century, is a fascinating book which shows how important the Catholic faith was to most people until very recently. Her view of the Catholic church's influence in ireland is mainly a positive one, she highlights the comfort and sense of stability that people derived from the Catholic faith. She challenges many popular assumptions, such as the view that the Catholic church was repressive, that it held Ireland back cultu ...more
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Jun 11, 2014 rated it it was amazing
This is a book as necessary as it is magnificent. But to fully explain that acolade, it is best if I write very personally.

Because for twelve years now - and through multiple readings - I have cherished this acute, haunting evocation of what Irish Catholic culture used to be, before it was replaced by the new - and to my mind - sterile, soulless ethos of modern, globalised, secular Ireland.

Indeed, I _needed_ this book, as an American who first moved to Ireland in 2004. Living amidst the ruins of
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