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Finding God in a New Age | "Those who allow themselves to be caught by the notion of trying to find God in all things discover that they are constantly in the company of the God of Surprises."
Brian Grogan, SJ
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Where Two Traditions Meet | Biography of John Sullivan SJ "From son of powerful Unionist Lord Chancellor and ‘best dressed man in Dublin’ to obscure Jesuit priest, man of God, and healer of people."
Thomas J. Morrissey, SJ
| Catholic Revival in the North of Ireland, 1603-41 |
Brian Mac Cuarta, SJThe resurgence of the Catholic Church is central to the religious history of early modern Ireland. Covering the crucial years between its post-war trauma in 1603, to its vigorous condition by the 1641 rising, this book explores that process within the ecclesiastical province of Armagh, embracing both Ulster and the northern Pale. Northern Irish resentment at the structures of the Church of Ireland throws light on Catholic success in plantation Ulster. Continentally-trained priests, secular and religious, contributed much to the revival, but they faced considerable opposition from traditionalist clergy. In the Pale, the close alliance of these clergy with the landed and urban élites enabled the Catholic community to withstand the state’s religious coercion which was prevalent down to about 1620. Thereafter, building on educational links with the Continent established since the 1590s, the Catholic Church, although living with the internal tension between older and newer strands, was able to adopt a more vibrant and assertive role. Brian Mac Cuarta SJ has written articles on early modern Ireland, and edited the volume Ulster 1641 (Belfast, 1993). He is currently tutor in history at Queen’s University Belfast.
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