‘Reforming Galway’: Civic society, religious change and St Nicholas’s collegiate church, 1550-1750
This book explores a new way of looking at the reformation in Ireland. Traditionally Irish historians have described early modern religious change on a national basis, from a confessional perspective and have been concerned with short term ‘success’ or ‘failure’. Using St Nicholas’s collegiate church in Galway as a paradigm this book approaches the problem from a local perspective, encompassing both the Protestant and Catholic reformations as they were played out in that church. In doing so it reveals religious change not as a something to be measured in the short term but as something that slowly evolved over two centuries, changing not only buildings but hearts and minds also.
Raymond Gillespie
- Four Courts Press Ltd
- 9781801511285.00
- 240 pages
- Hardback
- Ireland
- European history
