Ireland's Empire

Colin Barr is Senior Lecturer in the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of several books on Irish history, including Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845–1865 (2003), The European Culture Wars in Ireland: The Callan Schools Affair 1868–81 (2010) and is co-editor of Nation/Nazione: Irish Nationalism and the Italian Risorgimento (2013), with Michele Finelli and Anne O'Connor, and Religion and Greater Ireland: Christianity and Irish Global Networks, 1750–1950 (2015), with Hilary M. Carey.

• Introduction; 1. The United States; 2. Newfoundland; 3. India; 4. South Africa; 5. Canada; 6. Australia; 7. New Zealand; Conclusion.

'Based on research undertaken in over 100 archives ranging from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Cape Town, South Africa and from Rome to Maynooth, and in many cities in between, this work will fundamentally transform our understanding of the role of the Irish Catholic Church in the British Empire. An outstanding addition to the history of religion in the English-speaking world in the nineteenth century.' Thomas Bartlett, University of Aberdeen