The invisible Irish : finding Protestants in the nineteenth-century migrations to America / / Rankin Sherling

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461021503321
• Autore: Sherling Rankin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal, Québec ; ; London, [England] ; ; Chicago, [Illinois] : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-7735-9796-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Collana: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion. Series Two ; ; 74
• Disciplina: 325.73
• Soggetti: Presbyterians - Ireland - History; Presbyterians - United States - History; Irish - United States - Religion; Irish - United States - History; Electronic books.; United States Emigration and immigration History; Ireland Emigration and immigration History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1 The Pursuit of Irish Protestants in America: Problems and Solutions -- section one The church and the ministry: keystones in Irish Presbyterian society -- 2 A Government unto Itself: Conflict, Theology, and Presbyterian-ism in Ireland -- 3 Kirk and Clergy: "None Is Found Apart from the Other" -- section two Part and parcel: clerical and general Irish Presbyterian migration, 1683-1810. 4 In the Beginning: Clerical Migration, 1683-1713 -- 5 A Great Flood Swept over the Land: Clerical Migration, 1714-1738 -- 6 Years of Drought: Clerical Migration, 1739-1769 -- 7 War, Rebellion, and Departure: Clerical Migration, 1770-1810 -- section three Into the unknown: Irish Presbyterian migration to America in the nineteenth century. 8 Patterns in the Tea Leaves: Nineteenth-Century Irish Presbyterian Clerical Migration to the United States and What It Suggests.
• Sommario/riassunto: An exploration of the enduring historical puzzle of the nature and scope of Irish Protestant migration.