ABSTRACT

First published in 1975. In 1869 the Church of Ireland, until then part of the Church of England, was disestablished and partially disendowed. The author traces the changes in the Church of Ireland’s organization and function and the decline of its influence and numerical size during the hundred years following disestablishment. This title will be of interest to students of nineteenth- and twentieth-century religious and social history.

chapter II|116 pages

Disestablishment

chapter III|92 pages

Reconstruction

chapter IV|74 pages

The First Forty Years of Disestablishment

chapter V|48 pages

The Church and Irish Politics

chapter VI|28 pages

The Church in the Twentieth Century