Church, State, and Nation in Modern Ireland

Larkin, Emmet

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“…Following independence in 1922, a "constitutional division of labor" took place in which the new state in Ireland was responsible for political and economic matters, and the church, based on its claim to be "responsible for the moral well-being of the nation," took charge of education, health, and social welfare (Larkin 1975(Larkin , 1274. Catholic teaching on the family, education, and private property was incorporated into the 1937 Constitution (Whyte 1971), and until the 1960s, the state took on the duty of helping to "maintain traditional Catholic teaching and values" (Larkin 1975(Larkin , 1274. As such, a political consensus emerged that recognized the power of the church and its prerogatives so that "it became virtually at one with the nation's identity" (Larkin 1975(Larkin , 1276.…”

Section: The Irish Catholic Church -A Sending Churchmentioning

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“…Catholic teaching on the family, education, and private property was incorporated into the 1937 Constitution (Whyte 1971), and until the 1960s, the state took on the duty of helping to "maintain traditional Catholic teaching and values" (Larkin 1975(Larkin , 1274. As such, a political consensus emerged that recognized the power of the church and its prerogatives so that "it became virtually at one with the nation's identity" (Larkin 1975(Larkin , 1276. However, this consensus has come under some pressure since the 1960s with the rise of an anticlerical and liberal agenda among a secular elite (Garvin 2004).…”

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The Politics of Migration, Church, and State: A Case Study of the Catholic Church in Ireland

Gray

2016

International Migration Review

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This article investigates the ways in which a shift from post-colonial nation building to neoliberal state restructuring has shaped church and Irish state relations regarding migrant welfare. It develops the extensive work of B€ ackstr€ om and Davie (2010) and B€ ackstr€ om et al.(2011) on how majority churches in European countries are reclaiming a social welfare role as the state relinquishes this responsibility: first, by examining the domain of migrant welfare which is not developed in their work; and second, by arguing that majority church promigrant service provision, as it has evolved in recent decades, can be understood in relation to an emergent neoliberal mode of collective responsibility for migrant welfare. It suggests that in spite of other factors and forces that undermine Irish Catholic Church authority, the marketization of more domains of life in the first decades of the twenty-first century has given new significance to Catholic Social Teaching and pro-migrant church initiatives.

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Section: The Irish Catholic Church -A Sending Churchmentioning

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The Politics of Migration, Church, and State: A Case Study of the Catholic Church in Ireland

Gray

2016

International Migration Review

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“…While in the late 19th and early 20th century, Church of Ireland, Presbyterians and Methodists made up about 10 percent of the population, a downward trend continued until the 1990s and early 2000s. Much of the falls in numbers observed in the early 20th century have been attributed to the strongly Catholic ethos of the nationalist movement and the new Republic after independence (Delaney, 2000; Larkin, 1975). This prompted the emigration of a substantial number of members of minority religious communities after independence, 5 which, coupled with demographic changes such as lower fertility rates and the increasing prevalence of intermarriage (Bowen, 1983), led to a strong decline in the Protestant population.…”

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Old and new religious minorities: Examining the changing religious profile of the Republic of Ireland

Röder

2016

Irish Journal of Sociology

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The religious profile of Ireland has changed substantially in recent decades, mainly driven by large scale migration. Alongside the continued dominance of Catholicism a new diversity of religious affiliation now exists, together with a growing proportion of people no longer affiliated with any religion. Census data shows that this is especially the case amongst the younger cohorts pointing towards significant changes in the future. A recovery of the numbers of the Protestant minority that occurred at the same time, on the other hand, may not be sustainable.

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“…Inspiration for the notion of a legitimizing role for religion comes from Rubin, Rulers . In the Irish case, the legitimizing capacity of the Church for nationalism is reflected in Larkin, ‘Church’.…”

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Religion and development in post‐Famine Ireland

Henderson

2019

The Economic History Review

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Over a century ago, Horace Plunkett began a debate about the role of religion in Irish development, pointing to what he saw as the economic shortcomings of Roman Catholicism. Thereafter, however, the debate waned, and only limited scholarship has subsequently investigated the significance of religion in Irish development, especially in statistical terms. In this article that lacuna is addressed, using a quantitative approach to examine the relationship between Roman Catholicism and economic and financial development in the post‐Famine era. Attention is directed to a variety of development indicators, namely, education, occupations, and commerce. By focusing on a selection of measures over time, it is possible to determine more precisely where differences, if any, occurred between the denominations and whether such differences changed over the period. The analysis reveals that Roman Catholicism tends to be initially negatively associated with more advanced development outcomes, but that this association weakens over time. As such, the results point to an economic convergence between Roman Catholics and Protestants, complementing historical evidence on an upward Catholic socioeconomic transition—a ‘Catholic embourgeoisement’—in the post‐Famine era.

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Church, State, and Nation in Modern Ireland

Cited by 57 publications

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The Politics of Migration, Church, and State: A Case Study of the Catholic Church in Ireland

The Politics of Migration, Church, and State: A Case Study of the Catholic Church in Ireland

Old and new religious minorities: Examining the changing religious profile of the Republic of Ireland

Religion and development in post‐Famine Ireland

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