Pre-suppression Jesuit Activity in the British Isles and Ireland

Thomas M. McCoog, S.J., PhD (1984), sometime director of publications at the Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (Rome) and archivist of the British Jesuit province (London), is curator of the Avery, Cardinal Dulles Archives at Fordham University (New York). His most recent monograph is The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England 1598–1606. “Lest our lamp be entirely extinguished” (Brill, 2017).

“A magisterial overview […]. The volume will be particularly helpful to scholars with expertise in other fields who need an entry point, and to specialists in Jesuit studies who may be shifting their attention from one period to another or simply need a wider perspective.”Victor Houliston, University of the Witwatersrand. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2020), pp. 663–665.“This is a clear and readable book, which makes the complicated pleasingly accessible. After each section, there is a helpful, short historiographical overview. For those looking for an introduction to the topic, this book serves that role admirably. The history of Catholicism in Britain and Ireland is currently a major growth field in historical scholarship, and this workgives some pointers to possible future directions. As a final thought, the book underlines, especially for the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, just how much the history of English Catholicism is dominated by historiography of the Jesuits.” James E. Kelly, University of Durham. In: Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60, No. 1 (January 2021), pp. 206–208.

• Pre-suppression Jesuit Activity in the British Isles and IrelandThomas M. McCoog, S.J.AbstractKeywords1 Initial Contact2 Jesuit Nuncios3 Vocations to the Society4 Permanent Missions in the Sixteenth Century5 The Early Stuarts and Interregnum6 Restoration and the Later Stuarts7 The Eighteenth Century8 Suppression9 ConclusionBibliography