Over seven million people left Ireland over the course of the nineteenth century. This book is the first to put that huge population change in its religious context, by asking how the Irish Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian churches responded to mass emigration. Did they facilitate it, object to it, or limit it? Were the three Irish churches the
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Manchester University Press
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9780719090196
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208975568
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Author
Sarah Roddy
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Population, Providence and Empire: the Churches and Emigration from Nineteenth-Century Ireland