Forming Catholic Communities

Liam Chambers, Ph.D (2002), Maynooth University, is senior lecturer and head of the department of history at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. He is joint editor of the journal Irish Historical Studies. Thomas O’Connor, Ph.D (1994), Sorbonne-Paris IV, is professor of history at Maynooth University. He edits Archivium Hibernicum. His most recent book is Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition (Palgrave, 2016).

“the editors have produced a volume which provides a series of insights into a phenomenon of genuine importance to British and Irish Catholicism.”Tadhg O' hAnnrachain, University College, Dublin. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 70, No. 1 (January 2019), p. 193.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroductionLiam Chambers and Thomas O’ConnorPart 1: Patronage and Service1 Irish Collegians in Spanish Service (1560–1803)Thomas O’Connor2 Seraphic Sparks: The Irish Franciscan and Capuchin Colleges on the ContinentMícheál Mac Craith3 Pietas Austriaca and ‘Dispensers of Royal Authority’: The Early Irish Colleges and Habsburg Cultural StrategiesDeclan M. DowneyPart 2: Migration and Schooling4 ‘Bullworks against the furie of heresie’: Identity, Education, and Mission in the English Jesuit College of St OmersJan Graffius5 The English Benedictines in Eighteenth-Century LorraineFrédéric Richard-MaupillierPart 3: Faction and Finance6 The Spanish Court, Ecclesiastical Patronage, and the Irish College of Santiago de Compostela (1611–17)Ciaran O’Scea7 The Early Failures of the Irish College Rome, 1628–78Matteo Binasco8 Financial Mismanagement at the Irish College, 1772–98Christopher KortenPart 4: Print and Culture9 English Recusant Controversy in Spanish Print Culture: Dissemination, Popularisation, FictionalisationAna Sáez-Hidalgo10 Creating an Irish Identity: Print, Culture, and the Irish Franciscans of LouvainMarc CaballPart 5: Afterlives – Surviving the Nineteenth Century11 The ‘British Establishments’, the Irish College in Paris and Restoration France, 1814–30Liam Chambers12 The Trouble with France: Making Scots Priests in France, 1818–78Iida Saarinen13 The Transformation of the Irish College, Paris: War, Education, and Administration, 1870–1918Justin Dolan StoverIndex