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This chapter looks at how Irish Catholic identity was constructed materially and visually in the years of nationalist ferment leading up to the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922. Tracing the emergence of an imposing Catholic material presence throughout Ireland during the nineteenth century, it then focuses on St. Colman’s Cathedral in Queenstown (now Cobh) in County Cork as an example of the new Irish Catholic architecture, and on its decorative scheme, which dates from between 1877 and 1916.
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Wilson, A. (2015). The Material and Visual Culture of the Construction of Irish Catholic Identity: St. Colman’s Cathedral, Queenstown, County Cork. In: Jones, T.W., Matthews-Jones, L. (eds) Material Religion in Modern Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137540638_3
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