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Modern Irish Catholic history blossomed from the mid-1610s down to the 1680s. During the period c.1580–c.1630 the foundations for that history were created by a handful of Catholic Old English and Gaelic émigré writers on the Continent who produced manuscript and printed works that highlighted Ireland’s proud Christian heritage in the hope of boosting morale, heightening consciousness, and fostering a spirit of unity among all Catholics of Ireland. To complement the substantial scholarship on the historical oeuvre of the Louvain Franciscans, and drawing together recent studies of these individual writers, this chapter explores that key formative stage in the development of modern Catholic history, an important strategy in forging an identity for a new Irish Catholic nation.
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Lyons, M.A. (2017). Towards a Catholic History for a Catholic Nation: The Contribution of Irish Émigré Scholars in Europe, c.1580–c.1630. In: Hill, J., Lyons, M. (eds) Representing Irish Religious Histories. Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41531-4_1
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