The Illustrated Story of Christian Ireland: From St. Patrick to the Peace Process - Hardcover

Staunton, Michael

9781903582053: The Illustrated Story of Christian Ireland: From St. Patrick to the Peace Process

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1903582059 ISBN 13: 9781903582053

Publisher: Merlin Publishing, 2001

Religious beliefs and traditions have moulded Ireland's past and present in spectacular ways. Told here for the first time, the 2,000-year-old story of faith sometimes bringing the Irish people together and sometimes dividing them. From pagan times through to the 21st century, the book brings to life the individuals whose religion played defining roles in Ireland's history, including Saint Brigid and Jonathan Swift, Daniel O'Connell and Eamonn de Valera. Everything from the truth about St Patrick to the politics of the Irish Protestant heritage is told in easy-to-read, non-academic language. As often as possible, the fascinating stories include the words of the people who experienced the events; during the Black Death, for example, a Franciscan friar feared that the end of the world had come and wrote: "I, seeing these many ills, and that the whole world is encompassed by evil, waiting among the dead for death to come, have committed to writing what I have truly heard and examined.I leave parchment for continuing the work, in case anyone should still be alive in the future and any son of Adam can escape this pestilence."

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