Rome and Irish Catholicism in the Atlantic World, 1622–1908

Matteo Binasco is Adjunct Professor at the Foreigners University of Siena, Italy. He received his PhD in History at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His areas of interest are the Irish migrations in the Atlantic area and to Rome during the early modern period. He is the author of Roman Sources for the History of American Catholicism, 1763-1939 (2018), as well as other books, articles and essays on the development of clerical networks between Rome and the North Atlantic area.

“This collection suggests an ambitious research agenda for historians of Irish clerical networks. In highlighting the importance of Roman archives, it points up current deficiencies in Irish historiography and professional training. … The establishment of an Irish clerical prosopography (an impossibly ambitious goal?), would facilitate this grand enterprise.” (T. O’Connor, British Catholic History, Vol. 34 (4), 2019)

• 1: Introduction: Rome and Irish Catholicism in the Atlantic World. A Roman Perspective; Matteo Binasco.- Part I. Irish Catholicism  and the Atlantic World.- 2: The Irish in the Iberian Atlantic and Rome: Globalized Individuals and the Rise of Transatlantic Networks of Information; Igor Pérez Tostado.- 3: Rome as Part of the Irish North Atlantic Experience, 1770-1830; Luca Codignola.- 4: Language, Ethnicity, and Region: Rome and the Struggle for Dominance of the Canadian Catholic Church,1785–1930; Terrence Murphy.- 5: Irish Question or Irish Connection? Irish Catholics in North America through the "Roman" Lens; Matteo Sanfilippo.- Part II. The Irish Clergy in Rome.- 6: The "Urbs" and "Hibernia". Missionary Connections between the Irish Community of Rome and Ireland in the Seventeenth Century; Matteo Binasco.- 7: The Irish Franciscan Continental Colleges and the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception; Mícheál Mac Craith.- 8: Irish Protestants in the Theatre of the World: TheApostolic Hospice for the Converting, Rome, 1677-1745; Clare Lois Carroll.- 9: For the Pope and Rome: Irish Catholic Soldiers of the Papal Battalion of St. Patrick in Italy in 1860; Florry O’Driscoll.- Part III. Rome and the Irish mission at Home.- 10: The Other Irish Mission, Spanish Patronage and Catholic Hierarchy in the Seventeenth Century; Cristina Bravo Lozano.- 11: Rome and the Irish Catholic Community in the Eighteenth Century, 1691–1789; Liam Chambers.- 12: Conclusion; Matteo Binasco.