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The pastoral role of the Roman Catholic Church in pre-famine Ireland, 1750-1850
"In this new volume, 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 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....
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