Table of Contents

Introduction
PART I
1. Talk of population: the clergy and emigration in principle
2. The emigrant’s friend?: the clergy and emigration in practice
3. ‘Scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd’: the pastoral responses of the Irish churches to emigration
PART II
4. The battlefield against popery: emigration and sectarian rivalry
5. The spiritual empire at home: emigration and the spread of Irish religious influence
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index

About the Author

Sarah Roddy is Lecturer in Irish History in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester