James Larkin, 1876-1947: Irish Labour Leader

Politics & Social Sciences

LARKIN, Emmet

Politics & Government

Routledge

A long out of print biography of James Larkin who ranks alongside James Connolly as one of Ireland's great working class leaders. Larkin, a committed socialist militant, united and led Belfast's Catholic and protestant dock workers in a bitter dispute with the Unionist bosses in 1907. In the ensuing conflict thousands of Orangemen declared solidarity with Larkin and the police mutinied in support of the strikers. This book helps increase understanding of the man who some considered the greatest revolutionary syndicalist of his time.

James Larkin: Irish Labour Leader 1876-1947

Social Sciences

Pluto Press

Larkin presents an original thesis on the development of the modern Irish state, maintaining that Parnell forged a de facto state that was strengthened and consolidated before the conventionally accepted dates for the emergence of the Irish state. This unique political system survived attacks by the British Conservative government and Parnell's own challenge to the system and his subsequent defeat. Larkin argues that Parnell's failure lay in the power of his system to transcend its creator.Originally published in 1978.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland and the Fall of Parnell, 1888-1891

History

World

The University of North Carolina Press

The Making of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, 1850-1960

Religion & Spirituality

In this, his sixth book on the Roman Catholic church in Ireland, Larkin focuses on the church's role in the first stage of the emergence of the modern Irish political system. This system depended upon the convergence of three crucial elements -- the leader, the party, and the Irish bishops as a body -- and in the 1870s, these elements began to coalesce. The refusal of the bishops to come to terms with the Home Rule movement was fortunate; otherwise their dominance would have altered the shape of Irish politics. Originally published in 1990. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

The Roman Catholic Church and the Home Rule Movement in Ireland, 1870-1874

Europe

In this, his sixth book on the Roman Catholic church in Ireland, Larkin focuses on the church's role in the first stage of the emergence of the modern Irish political system. This system depended upon the convergence of three crucial elements -- the leader, the party, and the Irish bishops as a body -- and in the 1870s, these elements began to coalesce. The refusal of the bishops to come to terms with the Home Rule movement was fortunate; otherwise their dominance would have altered the shape of Irish politics. Originally published in 1990. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

The Roman Catholic Church and the Home Rule Movement in Ireland, 1870-1874 (Unc Press Enduring Editions)

Christian Books & Bibles

University of North Carolina Press Enduring Editions

Larkin presents an original thesis on the development of the modern Irish state, maintaining that Parnell forged a de facto state that was strengthened and consolidated before the conventionally accepted dates for the emergence of the Irish state. This unique political system survived attacks by the British Conservative government and Parnell's own challenge to the system and his subsequent defeat. Larkin argues that Parnell's failure lay in the power of his system to transcend its creator. Originally published in 1978. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Roman Catholic Church in Ireland and the Fall of Parnell, 1888-1891

Throughout the nineteenth century, the phenomenon of "Irish Catholicism" became an important part of the religious landscape in the entire English-speaking world. Extending beyond the Roman Catholic Church in England and Scotland, the developing values and mores of Irish Catholicism strongly influenced the Church in the United States and many other English-speaking countries. In an effort to better understand the phenomenon, Emmet Larkin attempts to explain how the Church was able to acquire such considerable power and influence in nineteenth-century Ireland. This volume, originally published in 1976 and reprinted with a new introduction in 1984, is the partial fruit of Emmet Larkin's lifetime study of the history of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland.
 In three short essays (first published as articles in The American Historical Review), Larkin analyzes the economic, social, and political context of nineteenth-century Ireland. He studies the growth of the Church's economic power in Ireland, the "1850-1875 devotional revolution" in which the Irish people became virtually practicing Catholics within a generation, and the extent of the Church's political power and influence over Ireland. Larkin's introduction provides a critical assessment of his previous interpretations and a guide to more recent scholarly research. 
 Emmet Larkin is professor of history at the University of Chicago. He is the author of numerous works, including The Roman Catholic Church and the Creation of the Modern Irish State, 1878-1885 (1975), The Roman Catholic Church and the Home Rule Movement in Ireland, 1870-1875 (1990), and The Roman Catholic Church and the Emergence of the Modern Irish Political System, 1874-1878 (1996). ――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――

The Historical Dimensions of Irish Catholicism (Not In A Series)

Americas

The Catholic University of America Press

In this new volume, noted Irish historian Emmet Larkin turns his attention to the pastoral challenges the Roman Catholic Church faced in ministering to an exploding population of Irish Catholics in the years before the Great Famine of 1847. The extraordinary increase in the population of Ireland from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century combined with a lack of financial resources available to the church as well as a shortage of clergy and sacred space proved to be crucial for adopting new methods of ministering to the Irish Catholic community. How the Irish Church attempted to respond to these various challenges, and how it was thus uniquely shaped by them, is the central theme of this study.
 Using impressive statistical and documentary support, Larkin analyzes the population boom, the Irish clergy between 1750 and 1850--its makeup, conduct, and duties--and the shortage of chapels. Larkin describes how the Church in Ireland tried to cope with its problems not only by increasing the number of priests and chapels, but also through the informal sanction of the unique Irish custom of "Stations." The custom involved transforming the Irish secular clergy into a part-time itinerant ministry in a circuit of their parishes for some four months of the year at Christmas and Easter, when they collected their dues and provided their parishioners with catechesis and the sacraments of confession and communion in the designated houses of the more substantial members of their congregations. While the custom of Stations certainly had the pastoral advantage of rationalizing and ameliorating the difficulties in regard to the shortage of clergy and sacred space, it also had the effect of further rooting religious practice in the home rather than in the church or chapel, which was totally at variance with the Tridentine norm of church-centered practice on the continent, and which rendered the Pre-Famine Irish Church increasingly unique in the Universal Church.
 This study continues Larkin's ongoing research on the Church in Ireland. Among his many previously published works are The Historical Dimensions of Irish Catholicism and The Roman Catholic Church and the Emergence of the Modern Irish Political System, 1874-1878, both from CUA Press.
 ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
 Emmet Larkin is professor of history at the University of Chicago.
 PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:
 "As part of his remarkable history of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Emmet Larkin here recreates pre-famine Irish Catholic society in all its richness and vibrancy. In a work of commanding authority and impressive analytical power, Larkin demonstrates how Irish Catholics emerged from the era of persecution to build a truly national Church--capable of providing sufficient pastoral care in the face of a rapidly expanding population and thus enabling the Church to defeat the efforts of the state-supported 'New Reformation' to proselytise the Irish people."--Stewart J. Brown, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Edinburgh
 "There are some books that deal with aspects of pre-Famine Irish Catholicism, but none can compete with Larkin's in broad coverage, detail, source evidence, subject knowledge, and brilliance of interpretation."--Lawrence J. McCaffrey, Professor Emeritus of History, Loyola University Chicago
 "In this penultimate volume of his monumental study of Irish Catholicism, Larkin draws upon his unparalleled mastery of both archival and statistical sources to demonstrate how difficult it was, during the unprecedented population explosion culminating in the famine of the 1840s, for the Church to carry out the pastoral mission prescribed by the Council of Trent. His work sets the agenda for the next generation of historians of religion in modern Ireland."--David W. Miller, Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
 "[This book] will be one of the

The Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Pre-Famine Ireland, 1750-1850

Larkin presents an original thesis on the development of the modern Irish state, maintaining that Parnell forged a de facto state that was strengthened and consolidated before the conventionally accepted dates for the emergence of the Irish state. This unique political system survived attacks by the British Conservative government and Parnell's own challenge to the system and his subsequent defeat. Larkin argues that Parnell's failure lay in the power of his system to transcend its creator. 
Originally published in 1978. 
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland and the fall of Parnell,1888-1891

Liverpool University Press

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