Histories of Religious Identity and the Irish
Keywords:
Gender, religious identity, violence, Ireland, AustraliaAbstract
Researching medieval women necessitates the study of religion-bothreligious practice and religious identity. While sources may be limited forindividual faith and religious practice, there remains ample evidence forthe importance of religious identity shaping the lives of medieval religiouswomen. While finding religious women in the sources from medieval Irelandwas an important early project in my career, my later research intohow gender formed understanding and memory of religious violence hasprovided more nuanced analysis of the role of religion in the lives of Irishpeople in the past. The reach of Irish religious history has proved to belong and the conflicts over religious identity from Ireland continued toinform how Irish migrants and their children understood their new homesin Australia.
References
Behrendt, Larissa 2019 The Nightingale review—ambitious, urgent and necessarily brutal. But who is it for? The Guardian, 20 August 2019. Online: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/20/the-nightingale-review-ambitious-urgent-and-necessarily-brutal-but-who-is-it-for
Bennett, Judith M. 1989 Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Boland, Eavan 1995 Collected Poems. Carcanet, Manchester.
Bray, Dorothy 1999 The Manly Spirit of St. Monenna. In Celtic Connections: Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Celtic Studies, edited by Ronald Black, William Gilles and Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh, 171–81. Tuckwell Press, East Linton.
Ireland’s Other Apostle: Cogitosus’ Saint Brigit. Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 59: 55–70.
Brown, Peter 1971 The World of Late Antiquity. Thames & Hudson, London.
Bynum, Caroline Walker 1987 Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Collins, Tracey 2018 Isolated in the Wilderness? An Archaeological Exploration of Nunneries in the Medieval Landscape of Ireland. In Church and Settlement in Ireland, edited by Matthew Stout and James Lyttleton, 142–56. Four Courts Press, Dublin.
Connolly, Philomena 2002 Medieval Record Sources. Four Courts Press, Dublin.
Curthoys, Ann, and Ann McGrath 2009 How to Write History that People Want to Read. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.
Doyle, Angela Mary, RSM 1992 HIV/AIDS, the Opportunity to Minister—Address given on World AIDS Day, Toowoomba. Qld. Queensland Pride 20: 16–17.
Mercy, Mater & Me. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.
Fewer, Michael 2019 The Battle of the Four Courts, 28-30 June 1922. History Ireland 27: 44–47.
Gilchrist, Roberta 1997 Gender and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Religious Women. Routledge, London.
Gilchrist, Roberta, and Marilyn Oliva 1993 Religious Women in Medieval East Anglia: History and Archaeology c1100–1540. University of East Anglia, Norwich.
Hall, Dianne 2003 Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c.1140–1540. Four Courts Press, Dublin.
a Defending the Faith: Orangeism and Ulster Protestant Identities in Colonial New South Wales. Journal of Religious History 38(2): 207–223. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12007
b ‘Now him white man’: Images of the Irish in Colonial Australia. History Australia 11(2): 167–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2014.11668521
a Fear, Gender and Violence in Early Modern Ireland. In Understanding Emotions in Early Europe, edited by Andrew Lynch and Michael Champion, 215–32. Brepols, Brussels.
b ‘God sent me here to raise a society’: Irishness, Protestantism and Colonial Identity. In Religion and Greater Ireland, edited by Hilary Carey and Colin Barr, 319–39. McGill-Queens University Press, Montréal.
‘Most barbarously and inhumaine maner butchered’: Masculinity, Trauma and Memory in Early Modern Ireland. In The Body in Pain in Irish Culture, edited by Fionnuala Dillane, Naomi McAreavey and Emilie Pine, 39–56. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Hall, Dianne, and Elizabeth Malcolm 2010 ‘The Rebels Turkish Tyranny’: Understanding Rape in Ireland during the 1640s. Gender and History 22(1): 55–74. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0424.2010.01578.x
‘English Institutions and the Irish Race’: Race and Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia. Australian Journal of Politics and History 62(1): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12204
A New History of the Irish in Australia. NewSouth Publishing, Sydney.
Hall, Dianne, and Lindsay Proudfoot 2010 Celtic Crosses and Empire: Irish Families and Communities in Stawell. In Gold Tailings: Forgotten Histories of Family and Community on the Central Victorian Goldfields, edited by Charles Fahey and Alan Mayne, 131–51. Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne.
Hamilton, Paula 1985 ‘No Irish Need Apply’: Aspects of the Employer-Employee Relationship in Australian Domestic Service, 1860–1900. Australian Studies Centre, London.
Johnson, Penelope 1991 Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Johnston, Elva 1995 Transforming Women in Irish Hagiography. Peritia 9: 197–220. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.Peri.3.249
McClaughlin, Trevor 2007 Protestant Irish in Australia. In Echoes of Irish Australia Rebellion to Republic, edited by Jeff Brownrigg, Cheryl Mongan and Richard Reid, 88–98. St Clements Retreat and Conference Centre Galong, Canberra.
McGrath, Ann 2010 Shamrock Aborigines: The Irish, the Aboriginal Australians and their Children. Aboriginal History 34: 55–84.
Shamrock Aborigines: The Irish, the Aboriginal Australians and their Children. In Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples: Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Australia, 108–43. McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal and Kingston.
O’Dowd, Mary 1991 Women and War in the 1640s. In Women in Early Modern Ireland, edited by Margaret MacCurtain and Mary O’Dowd, 91–111. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
O’Farrell, Patrick 1971 Ireland’s English Question: Anglo-Irish Relations, 1534–1970. T.T. Bashford, London.
The Catholic Church and Community in Australia: A History. Nelson, Melbourne.
The Irish in Australia. UNSW Press, Sydney.
Imagination’s Stain: Historical Reflections on Sectarian Australia, edited by Clare O’Farrell. http://www.patrickofarrell.com.
Peter the Venerable 1890 Petri Venerabilis, Abbatis Cluniacensis noni, opera omnia: accedunt Wibaldi Abbatis Stabulensis; necnon Ernaldi Abbatis Bonaevallis, Epistolae et opuscula. [Patrologia Latina, 189], edited by J.-P. Migne. Garnier, Paris.
Petri Venerabilis Adversus Iudeorum inveteratam duritiem, edited by Yvonne Friedman. Corpus Christianorum Continuo Mediaevalis 58. Brepols, Turnhout.
Proudfoot, Lindsay, and Dianne Hall 2011 Imperial Spaces: Placing the Irish and Scots in Colonial Australia. Manchester University Press, Manchester.
Reece, Bob 2000 The Irish and the Aborigines. In Irish-Australian Studies: Papers Delivered at the Ninth Irish-Australian Conference, Galway, April 1997, edited by Tadgh Foley and Fiona Bateman, 192–204. Crossing Press, Sydney.
Scott, Joan 1986 Gender as a Useful Category of Analysis. American Historical Review 91: 1053–75. https://doi.org/10.2307/1864376
Simms, Katharine 1975 The Legal Position of Irish Women in the Later Middle Ages. Irish Jurist 10: 96–111.
