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Oracles of God helps explain what divided a church, a society, and a new state in Ireland. This superbly researched book gives a detailed account of the political outlook and activities of the Roman Catholic Church, nationally and in the localities, during the fifteen years after the Treaty, both during and after the Civil War. Patrick Murray examines and assesses the clerical response to the Treaty, the involvement of bishops and priests in p...

In nine essays, European academics examine how politics and democracy are affecting religion today. Some of the topics they examine include: change in European religions, the Catholic Church and democracy in modern Europe, religion and media domination in Ireland, Protestants in an Irish Catholic state, the fall and rise of the Greek Catholic religion in Poland, Catholics in Poland, the Church of England in the Thatcher period, and the state o...

Essays showing links between Ireland and Scandinavia in folklore and literature.

A guide to the increasingly allusive and complex Peppercanister poems. All the poems are discussed in chronological order and are accompanied by illustrations and reproductions of covers, which are fully explained in the text.

How exactly were books printed in the Middle Ages, before the age of printing? As Thomas Cahill's book, How the Irish Saved Civilization, dramatically demonstrates that without the medieval Irish monks' devotion to transcription, much of the knowledge of Western civilization would have been lost forever. At that time, the author was often his own scribe and almost invariably his own editor and publisher. In the age of manuscript culture, every...

Land has been a dominant theme in modern Irish history, extending to political and cultural issues as well as permeating social and economic ones.