Rome and Irish Catholicism in the Atlantic World, 1622–1908, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019 Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World Series

1: Introduction: Rome and Irish Catholicism in the Atlantic World. A Roman Perspective; Matteo Binasco

Part I. Irish Catholicism  and the Atlantic World

2: The Irish in the Iberian Atlantic and Rome: Globalized Individuals and the Rise of Transatlantic Networks of Information; Igor Pérez Tostado

3: Rome as Part of the Irish North Atlantic Experience, 1770-1830; Luca Codignola

4: Language, Ethnicity, and Region: Rome and the Struggle for Dominance of the Canadian Catholic Church,1785–1930; Terrence Murphy

5: Irish Question or Irish Connection? Irish Catholics in North America through the "Roman" Lens; Matteo Sanfilippo

Part II. The Irish Clergy in Rome

6: The "Urbs" and "Hibernia". Missionary Connections between the Irish Community of Rome and Ireland in the Seventeenth Century; Matteo Binasco

7: The Irish Franciscan Continental Colleges and the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception; Mícheál Mac Craith

8: Irish Protestants in the Theatre of the World: The Apostolic Hospice for the Converting, Rome, 1677-1745; Clare Lois Carroll

9: For the Pope and Rome: Irish Catholic Soldiers of the Papal Battalion of St. Patrick in Italy in 1860; Florry O’Driscoll

Part III. Rome and the Irish mission at Home

10: The Other Irish Mission, Spanish Patronage and Catholic Hierarchy in the Seventeenth Century; Cristina Bravo Lozano

11: Rome and the Irish Catholic Community in the Eighteenth Century, 1691–1789; Liam Chambers

12: Conclusion; Matteo Binasco.

Matteo Binasco is Adjunct Professor at the Foreigners University of Siena, Italy. He received his PhD in History at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His areas of interest are the Irish migrations in the Atlantic area and to Rome during the early modern period. He is the author of Roman Sources for the History of American Catholicism, 1763-1939 (2018), as well as other books, articles and essays on the development of clerical networks between Rome and the North Atlantic area.

Explores the role played by the Holy See in the establishment and development of an Irish Atlantic missionary network

Makes new and original use of Roman archival material, and builds upon research both from Ireland and countries in which Irish migrants settled

Takes into account a combination of cultural, political and religious factors which contributed to the shaping of Irish Catholicism in the Atlantic world