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Making, Breaking and Remaking the Irish Missionary Network

Ireland, Rome and the West Indies in the Seventeenth Century

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  1. Matteo Binasco

    1. Department of History, Foreigners University of Siena, Siena, Italy

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  • Explores the role of the Irish Catholic clergy in developing a web of clerical networks during the early modern period

  • Investigates the importance of the Irish Colleges in Rome in establishing these networks of missionaries

  • Evaluates the extent to which Roman authorities were able to coordinate these networks during a time of great change in Ireland, on continental Europe and in the Atlantic region

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Matteo Binasco
    Pages 1-21

  3. Irish Clergy in Rome in the Early Seventeenth Century

    • Matteo Binasco
    Pages 23-43

  4. The Beginning: The Founding of St. Isidore’s and the Irish College

    • Matteo Binasco
    Pages 45-69

  5. Forging the Missionary Links between the “Urbs” and “Hibernia”

    • Matteo Binasco
    Pages 71-96

  6. A New Dimension to the Irish Mission: The West Indies

    • Matteo Binasco
    Pages 97-119

  7. Missionary Supply in Crisis Years: The Colleges and Ireland

    • Matteo Binasco
    Pages 121-143

  8. The Colleges in Transition

    • Matteo Binasco
    Pages 145-163

  9. “Ten Thousand Irish Catholics Extremely Oppressed by the English Heretics”: Rome and the Irish Missions in the West Indies During the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century

    • Matteo Binasco
    Pages 165-191

  10. Conclusion

    • Matteo Binasco
    Pages 193-198

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 199-282
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About this book

This book reconstructs the efforts that were made to establish a missionary network between the two Irish Colleges of Rome, Ireland, and the West Indies during the seventeenth century. It analyses the process which brought the Irish clergy to establish two dedicated colleges in the epicenter of early modern Catholicism and to develop a series of missionary initiatives in the English islands of the West Indies. During a period of great political change in Ireland, continental Europe and the Atlantic region, the book traces how and through which key figures and institutions this clerical channel was established, while at the same time identifying the main obstacles to its development. 

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​“This meticulously researched monograph presents the first comprehensive investigation of the challenges associated with developing a missionary network between Rome, Ireland and the West Indies during the seventeenth century. Combining a wealth of material from Roman archival collections with a masterful synthesis of wide-ranging scholarship, Binasco’s painstaking and authoritative examination of this complex story addresses a significant lacuna in the historiography of Irish Catholicism and of Irish migration in the early modern period.” (Mary Ann Lyons, Professor of History, Maynooth University)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, Foreigners University of Siena, Siena, Italy

    Matteo Binasco

About the author

Matteo Binasco is Adjunct Professor in Early Modern History at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy. His research interests are in Irish migrations across the Atlantic and to Rome during the early modern period. He is author of Roman Sources for the History of American Catholicism, 1763-1939 (2018) and editor of two volumes, Rome and Irish Catholicism in the Atlantic World, 1622-1908 (2018) and Luke Wadding, the Irish Franciscans, and Global Catholicism (2020). 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Making, Breaking and Remaking the Irish Missionary Network

  • Book Subtitle: Ireland, Rome and the West Indies in the Seventeenth Century

  • Authors: Matteo Binasco

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47372-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47371-6Published: 13 June 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47374-7Published: 13 June 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47372-3Published: 12 June 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 282

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Religion, Social History

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