Secular Martyrdom In Britain And Ireland

Author : Quentin Outram
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319629050
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland written by Quentin Outram and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection examines the concept and nature of the ‘people’s martyrology’, raising issues of class, community, religion and authority. It examines modern martyrdom through studies of Peterloo; Tolpuddle; Featherstone; Tonypandy; Emily Davison, fatally injured by the King’s horse on Derby Day, 1913; the 1916 Easter Rising; Jarrow, ‘the town that was murdered, and martyred in the 1930s’; David Oluwale, a Nigerian killed in Leeds in 1965; and Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger striker who died in 1981. It engages with the burgeoning historiography of memory to try to understand why some events, such as Peterloo, Tonypandy and the Easter Rising, have become household names whilst others, most notably Featherstone and Oluwale, are barely known. It will appeal to those interested in British and Irish labour history, as well as the study of memory and memorialization.

Author : John Wolffe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350019283
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred and Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland since 1914 written by John Wolffe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During and immediately after the First World War, there was a merging of Christian and nationalist traditions of martyrdom, expressed in the design of war cemeteries and war memorials, and the state funeral of the Unknown Warrior in 1920. John Wolffe explores the subsequent development of these traditions of 'sacred' and 'secular' martyrdom, analysing the ways in which they operated - sometimes in parallel, sometimes merged together and sometimes in conflict with each other. Particular topics explored include the Protestant commemoration of Marian and missionary martyrs, and the Roman Catholic campaign for the canonization of the 'saints and martyrs of England'. Secular martyrdom is discussed in relation to military conflicts especially the Second World War and the Falklands. In Ireland there was a particularly persistent merging of sacred and secular martyrdom in the wake of the Easter Rising of 1916 although by the time of the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' in the later twentieth-century these traditions diverged. In covering these themes, the book also offers historical and comparative context for understanding present-day acts of martyrdom in the form of suicide attacks.

Author : Myles O'Reilly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives of the Irish Martyrs and Confessors written by Myles O'Reilly and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James W. McAuley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152615420X
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Troubles of the past? written by James W. McAuley and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together academics and practitioners to consider the increasingly central role that memory and recalling the past plays in determining contemporary politics and the future direction of Northern Irish society. Using theoretical, comparative and case-study approaches, it considers not only how narratives of the past are constructed, reconstructed, understood and commemorated, but also the ways in which the key themes that emerge are harnessed and mobilised to political and social effect in the present. The book draws deeply on a wide range of expert opinion and viewpoints to add significantly to existing knowledge surrounding the debates over memory and the ways it is used in Northern Irish society.

Author : Carmen M. Mangion
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198848196
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Vol IV written by Carmen M. Mangion and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 1830 Catholicism in Britain and Ireland was practised and experienced within an increasingly secure Church that was able to build a national presence and public identity. With the passage of the Catholic Relief Act (Catholic Emancipation) in 1829 came civil rights for the United Kingdom's Catholics, which in turn gave Catholic organisations the opportunity to carve out a place in civil society within Britain and its empire. This Catholic revival saw both a strengthening of central authority structures in Rome, (creating a more unified transnational spiritual empire with the person of the Pope as its centre), and a reinvigoration at the local and popular level through intensified sacramental, devotional, and communal practices. After the 1840s, Catholics in Britain and Ireland not only had much in common as a consequence of the Church's global drive for renewal, but the development of a shared Catholic culture across the two islands was deepened by the large-scale migration from Ireland to many parts of Britain following the Great Famine of 1845. Yet at the same time as this push towards a degree of unity and uniformity occurred, there were forces which powerfully differentiated Catholicism on either side of the Irish Sea. Four very different religious configurations of religious majorities and minorities had evolved since the sixteenth-century Reformation in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Each had its own dynamic of faith and national identity and Catholicism had played a vital role in all of them, either as 'other' or, (in the case of Ireland), as the majority's 'self'. Identities of religion, nation, and empire, and the intersection between them, lie at the heart of this volume. They are unpacked in detail in thematic chapters which explore the shared Catholic identity that was built between 1830 and 1913 and the ways in which that identity was differentiated by social class, gender and, above all, nation. Taken together, these chapters show how Catholicism was integral to the history of the United Kingdom in this period.

Author : Luisa Passerini
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800739974
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Memory written by Luisa Passerini and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a post-1968 perspective on the past 50 years, Performing Memory brings together case studies on new developments in the relationship between politics and visual representation—including the histories of dance, theatre, political performance and cinema—and investigates how they relate to the interlinked concepts of visuality, corporeality and mobility. Using a collective transdisciplinary attitude from within historical disciplines, and looking across to artistic fields, this volume demonstrates that memory is not merely a recollection of experience but an interactive process, in which the body, mobile and constrained, is both a point of departure and reference.

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108427235
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaching the Civil Order written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global approach to developing a theory of radicalism, drawing on a series of striking case studies by leading scholars.

Author : James P. MacGuire
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498596975
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Religious Freedom written by James P. MacGuire and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious oppression, up to and including genocide, remains a real and under-reported reality for many people in Asia, Africa, Europe and even North America today. This book documents that reality and recommends specific measures to report and alleviate it.

Author : David Power Conyngham
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1589632575
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives of the Irish Martyrs written by David Power Conyngham and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian zeal and devotion of the founders of the primitive church in Ireland were only equaled by the great sacrifices and sufferings; endured alike by priests and people, during the fierce and bloody persecutions inaugurated by the Reformers under the sacred garb of religion.The fanatical followers of Mohammed propagated the doctrines of the Koran by the sword; but the Reformers, bloodier far, prostituted the name of religion, and glorified the sacred name of God with their lips, while they butchered his faithful ministers and people, or tortured them in mockery and sport.The persecution, which commenced under Henry, in the early part of the sixteenth century, gradually increased in intensity and cruelty, until it culminated in the middle of the seventeenth, in the most bloody and exterminating scenes on record.England readily embraced Protestantism, Ireland remained Catholic; hence, the war of supremacy and conquest carried on by the former was intensified by all the acerbity of religious hate and fanaticism; and though the roll of those who suffered death for the faith might be said to close with 1745, still the persecutions for religion's sake have come down to our own days.

Author : Michael Snape
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192664441
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Church Militant written by Michael Snape and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the relationship between Anglicans and the armed forces, of the military heritage and history of the Anglican Communion, and the changing nature of this relationship between the mid-Victorian period and the 1970s. This era spanned a period of imperial expansion and colonial conflict round the turn of the twentieth century, the two World Wars, the Cold War, wars of decolonisation, and Vietnam. In terms of armed conflict, it was the bloodiest period in the history of humanity and marked the advent of weaponry that had the capacity to extinguish human civilization. This book assesses the contribution of an expansive Anglican Communion to the armed forces of the English-speaking world, examines the ways in which this has been remembered, and explores its challenging legacy for the twenty-first century Church of England.