Catholicism in a Protestant Kingdom

Download or read book Catholicism in a Protestant Kingdom written by C.D.A. Leighton and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1994-02-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping from narrative history, this book takes a deep look at the Catholic question in eighteenth-century Ireland. It asks how people thought about Catholicism, Protestantism and their society, in order to reassess the content and importance of the religious conflict. In doing this, Dr Cadoc Leighton provides a study of very wide appeal, which offers new and thought-provoking ways of looking not only at the eighteenth century but at modern Irish history in general. It also places Ireland clearly within the mainstream of European historical developments.