Colin Barr, Ireland’s Empire. The Roman Catholic Church in the English-Speaking World, 1829-1914

Abstract

Canadian-born Colin Barr received his PhD from Cambridge and held academic positions in Ireland and the United States prior to his current post as senior lecturer at the school of divinity, history and philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. His work on Paul Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin (1852-1878) and Ireland’s first cardinal (1866), is well known to Irish Studies scholars (Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845-1865, Notre Dame, University of Notre Da...