Christianity in Ireland: Revisiting the Story

by Brendan Bradshaw

The twenty-three essays in this collection provide a complete overview of Christianity in Ireland from the earliest patrician times to the troubled days of today's church. Written in accessible language by specialists these present the best modern scholarship on topics early Irish monasticism, lay female piety in medieval Ireland, the reformation, religious wars, the Presbyterian Church, Irish Methodism, the Church after the Famine, Northern Ireland and the post-Vatican II ecumenical journey, and the state of the troubled Irish Catholic Church today. Includes an extensive chronology of Irish history.

408 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2002

About the author

Rev. Father Brendan Bradshaw, SM