HIST 2260 Lecture Notes - List Of Irish Kings, Irish Canadian, Folk Catholicism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 2260
• Professor: Norman Smith

Document Summary

The religious history of ireland differs from that of the rest of the british isles that is, much, if not most, of ireland remained catholic, almost to the present day. Where the history of the island of great britain is one of accounting for the success of the reformation in england, The central historical issue here is why the reformation did not take root in ireland, and the role in this of ethnic identity which is perhaps the central reason. We will therefore look at the course of irish religious history, and the role of ethnicity. Church and state with church and nation and by this i mean nation in the sense of a people, who, in the case of the irish, lose their state for a large part of their recent history. Later in the course, you will encounter this same phenomenon in.