Jacqueline Hill is Professor Emerita at NUI Maynooth, Republic of Ireland, with an interest in 18th and 19th century Irish history, especially religious and political history. She is a member of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Irish Academy, and is secretary to the Board of Management of Irish Historical Studies. Her publications include From Patriots to Unionists: Dublin Civic Politics and Irish Protestant Patriotism, 1660-1840 (1997), and (as editor), A New History of Ireland, vii: 1921-84 (2003; 2010 paperback edn). Mary Ann Lyons is Professor of History at NUI Maynooth, Republic of Ireland, former joint Editor of Irish Historical Studies; President of the Irish Historical Society; President and Conference Secretary of the Catholic Historical Society of Ireland; former Chairperson of the Irish Committee for Historical Sciences; and member of the Royal Irish Academy Historical Studies Committee. Her publications include France and Ireland, 1500–1610: politics, migration and trade (2003; 2015 paperback edn) and Church and Society in County Kildare, c.1470–1547 (2000).

• Illustrations and tables.- Abbreviations.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on contributors.- Foreward by Toby Barnard.- Introduction by Jacqueline Hill and Mary Ann Lyons.- Part I.- Historiography and Religious Polarisation, c.1600-c.1938.- 1. Towards a Catholic history for a Catholic nation: the contribution of Irish émigré scholars in Europe,c.1580–c.1630 by Mary Ann Lyons.- 2. Writing about eucharistic belief and practice among historians of Protestantism in seventeenth-century Ireland by Evie Monaghan.- 3. Telling the Presbyterian story in eighteenth-century Ireland: John McBride and James Kirkpatrick by Robert Armstrong.- 4. Laying the nineteenth-century foundations: contributions from a Catholic and a Protestant scholar in the 1820s by Jacqueline Hill.- 5. Writing medieval Irish religious history in the nineteenth century by Elizabeth Boyle.- 6. William Dool Killen(1806-1902): a Presbyterian perspective on Irish ecclesiastical history by Laurence Kirkpatrick.- 7. History-writing, collective memory and identity in an Irish context: George V. Jourdan and R. Dudley Edwards by Miriam Moffitt.- Part II.- Ideology and practice: perceptions and uses of the religious past in the wider Irish community, c.1700-1980.- 8. Preaching history, 1749: the Belfast sermons of Gilbert Kennedy and James Saurin by Raymond Gillespie.- 9. Bishop O'Beirne and his church-building programme: the Church of Ireland and pre-Reformation Christianity by Caroline Gallagher.- 10. Negotiating the middle ground: Thomas Moore on religion and Irish nationalism by John B. Roney.- 11. Using the Irish language to further the aims of two bible societies: an analysis of Irish-language bibles in the Russell Library, Maynooth by Barbara McCormack.- 12. History and destiny in the making of the Irish Catholic spiritual empire by Irene Whelan.- 13. Religion as identity: the Church of Ireland's 1932 Patrician celebrations by Ian D'Alton.- 14. 'Patrick, the first churchman' in the Protestant vision of Ernest Bateman of Booterstown (1886-1979) by Eugenio F. Biagini.- Part III.- Religious history: practice and reconciliation c.1980s to the present.- 15. The 1641 depositions and the history classroom by Eamon Darcy.- 16. St. Patrick's Day: commemoration, conflict and Conciliation, 1900-2013 by Brian Walker.- 17. Perceptions of Irish religious history among community activists in Northern Ireland, 2010-2013 by John Wolffe.- 18. Reconciling memories reconsidered: reflections on a 1988 Irish reconciliation classic in light of three decades of scholarship and political experience by Joseph Liechty.- Select bibliography.

Jacqueline Hill is Professor Emerita at NUI Maynooth, Republic of Ireland, with an interest in 18th and 19th century Irish history, especially religious and political history. She is a member of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Irish Academy, and is secretary to the Board of Management of Irish Historical Studies. Her publications include From Patriots to Unionists: Dublin Civic Politics and Irish Protestant Patriotism, 1660-1840 (1997), and (as editor), A New History of Ireland, vii: 1921-84 (2003; 2010 paperback edn). Mary Ann Lyons is Professor of History at NUI Maynooth, Republic of Ireland, former joint Editor of Irish Historical Studies; President of the Irish Historical Society; President and Conference Secretary of the Catholic Historical Society of Ireland; former Chairperson of the Irish Committee for Historical Sciences; and member of the Royal Irish Academy Historical Studies Committee. Her publications include France and Ireland, 1500–1610: politics, migration and trade (2003; 2015 paperback edn) and Church and Society in County Kildare, c.1470–1547 (2000).

• Illustrations and tables.- Abbreviations.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on contributors.- Foreward by Toby Barnard.- Introduction by Jacqueline Hill and Mary Ann Lyons.- Part I.- Historiography and Religious Polarisation, c.1600-c.1938.- 1. Towards a Catholic history for a Catholic nation: the contribution of Irish émigré scholars in Europe,c.1580–c.1630 by Mary Ann Lyons.- 2. Writing about eucharistic belief and practice among historians of Protestantism in seventeenth-century Ireland by Evie Monaghan.- 3. Telling the Presbyterian story in eighteenth-century Ireland: John McBride and James Kirkpatrick by Robert Armstrong.- 4. Laying the nineteenth-century foundations: contributions from a Catholic and a Protestant scholar in the 1820s by Jacqueline Hill.- 5. Writing medieval Irish religious history in the nineteenth century by Elizabeth Boyle.- 6. William Dool Killen(1806-1902): a Presbyterian perspective on Irish ecclesiastical history by Laurence Kirkpatrick.- 7. History-writing, collective memory and identity in an Irish context: George V. Jourdan and R. Dudley Edwards by Miriam Moffitt.- Part II.- Ideology and practice: perceptions and uses of the religious past in the wider Irish community, c.1700-1980.- 8. Preaching history, 1749: the Belfast sermons of Gilbert Kennedy and James Saurin by Raymond Gillespie.- 9. Bishop O'Beirne and his church-building programme: the Church of Ireland and pre-Reformation Christianity by Caroline Gallagher.- 10. Negotiating the middle ground: Thomas Moore on religion and Irish nationalism by John B. Roney.- 11. Using the Irish language to further the aims of two bible societies: an analysis of Irish-language bibles in the Russell Library, Maynooth by Barbara McCormack.- 12. History and destiny in the making of the Irish Catholic spiritual empire by Irene Whelan.- 13. Religion as identity: the Church of Ireland's 1932 Patrician celebrations by Ian D'Alton.- 14. 'Patrick, the first churchman' in the Protestant vision of Ernest Bateman of Booterstown (1886-1979) by Eugenio F. Biagini.- Part III.- Religious history: practice and reconciliation c.1980s to the present.- 15. The 1641 depositions and the history classroom by Eamon Darcy.- 16. St. Patrick's Day: commemoration, conflict and Conciliation, 1900-2013 by Brian Walker.- 17. Perceptions of Irish religious history among community activists in Northern Ireland, 2010-2013 by John Wolffe.- 18. Reconciling memories reconsidered: reflections on a 1988 Irish reconciliation classic in light of three decades of scholarship and political experience by Joseph Liechty.- Select bibliography.

Jacqueline Hill is Professor Emerita at NUI Maynooth, Republic of Ireland, with an interest in 18th and 19th century Irish history, especially religious and political history. She is a member of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Irish Academy, and is secretary to the Board of Management of Irish Historical Studies. Her publications include From Patriots to Unionists: Dublin Civic Politics and Irish Protestant Patriotism, 1660-1840 (1997), and (as editor), A New History of Ireland, vii: 1921-84 (2003; 2010 paperback edn). Mary Ann Lyons is Professor of History at NUI Maynooth, Republic of Ireland, former joint Editor of Irish Historical Studies; President of the Irish Historical Society; President and Conference Secretary of the Catholic Historical Society of Ireland; former Chairperson of the Irish Committee for Historical Sciences; and member of the Royal Irish Academy Historical Studies Committee. Her publications include France and Ireland, 1500–1610: politics, migration and trade (2003; 2015 paperback edn) and Church and Society in County Kildare, c.1470–1547 (2000).

• Illustrations and tables.- Abbreviations.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on contributors.- Foreward by Toby Barnard.- Introduction by Jacqueline Hill and Mary Ann Lyons.- Part I.- Historiography and Religious Polarisation, c.1600-c.1938.- 1. Towards a Catholic history for a Catholic nation: the contribution of Irish émigré scholars in Europe,c.1580–c.1630 by Mary Ann Lyons.- 2. Writing about eucharistic belief and practice among historians of Protestantism in seventeenth-century Ireland by Evie Monaghan.- 3. Telling the Presbyterian story in eighteenth-century Ireland: John McBride and James Kirkpatrick by Robert Armstrong.- 4. Laying the nineteenth-century foundations: contributions from a Catholic and a Protestant scholar in the 1820s by Jacqueline Hill.- 5. Writing medieval Irish religious history in the nineteenth century by Elizabeth Boyle.- 6. William Dool Killen(1806-1902): a Presbyterian perspective on Irish ecclesiastical history by Laurence Kirkpatrick.- 7. History-writing, collective memory and identity in an Irish context: George V. Jourdan and R. Dudley Edwards by Miriam Moffitt.- Part II.- Ideology and practice: perceptions and uses of the religious past in the wider Irish community, c.1700-1980.- 8. Preaching history, 1749: the Belfast sermons of Gilbert Kennedy and James Saurin by Raymond Gillespie.- 9. Bishop O'Beirne and his church-building programme: the Church of Ireland and pre-Reformation Christianity by Caroline Gallagher.- 10. Negotiating the middle ground: Thomas Moore on religion and Irish nationalism by John B. Roney.- 11. Using the Irish language to further the aims of two bible societies: an analysis of Irish-language bibles in the Russell Library, Maynooth by Barbara McCormack.- 12. History and destiny in the making of the Irish Catholic spiritual empire by Irene Whelan.- 13. Religion as identity: the Church of Ireland's 1932 Patrician celebrations by Ian D'Alton.- 14. 'Patrick, the first churchman' in the Protestant vision of Ernest Bateman of Booterstown (1886-1979) by Eugenio F. Biagini.- Part III.- Religious history: practice and reconciliation c.1980s to the present.- 15. The 1641 depositions and the history classroom by Eamon Darcy.- 16. St. Patrick's Day: commemoration, conflict and Conciliation, 1900-2013 by Brian Walker.- 17. Perceptions of Irish religious history among community activists in Northern Ireland, 2010-2013 by John Wolffe.- 18. Reconciling memories reconsidered: reflections on a 1988 Irish reconciliation classic in light of three decades of scholarship and political experience by Joseph Liechty.- Select bibliography.