Abstract
This chapter assesses how translation was used to promote certain religious worldviews and values in nineteenth-century Ireland. Using the private correspondence of Cardinal Paul Cullen (1803–1878) as a case study, it demonstrates, through close textual analysis, how his translation efforts were an effective means of advancing a religious view and how private letters had a public function in promoting ideologies. Although printed works are generally studied as translation outputs, this chapter instead uses private correspondence to demonstrate that important translation activity can also take place in alternative realms. The stream of translation present in private letters shows how translation was an important element of the multilingual world of the Catholic Church and how essential it was for communication, self-promotion, and influence in this period.
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Notes
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Pontifical Irish College Rome (PICR), CUL/NC/4/1839/8 (1).
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Propaganda Fide was responsible for the formation of clerics and also the governance, promotion, and co-ordination of the Catholic Church in non-Catholic countries (including Ireland). The Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide, whose official title is ‘sacra congregatio christiano nomini propagando’ is the department of the pontifical administration charged with the spread of Catholicism and with the regulation of ecclesiastical affairs in non-Catholic countries.
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PICR, CUL/NC/4/1848/13.
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PICR, CUL/NC/3/1/9(1) Circa 1847.
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PICR, CUL/1716 (2).
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Brian Condon: Diary of John Thomas Hynes, 1843–1868. http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/condon/Hynes/July1843.htm [accessed on 27 August 2015].
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Cullen to Fransoni, 4 October 1852, Archives of Propaganda Fide, SC, Irlanda, vol. 31, ff. 252–253.
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PICR, KIR/NC/1/1853/36.
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O’Connor, A. (2016). Letters to Italy: Translation and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. In: Blumczynski, P., Gillespie, J. (eds) Translating Values. Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54971-6_9
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