Salvador Ryan
Salvador Ryan is a native of Moneygall, County Offaly. He was appointed Professor of Ecclesiastical History at St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth, in 2008. He is Editor of Irish Theological Quarterly, and Assistant Editor of Archivium Hibernicum. In 2013 he was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Journal of Baroque Studies published by the International Institute for Baroque Studies at the University of Malta. In 2014 he was appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of British Catholic History, and more recently to the International Advisory Board of the online journal Maria: A Journal of Marian Studies. Since 2004 he has been a member of the European Network on the Instruments of Devotion,
Salvador has edited over twenty books and three special issues of the online journal Religions, and has published numerous articles and book chapters on aspects of popular religion and ritual from the Middle Ages to the present day. He is also a frequent media contributor, both to newspapers such as the Irish Times and Irish Independent, international publications such as The Tablet and the National Catholic Reporter, and many other periodicals. He has also featured on a number of TV and radio documentaries and podcasts.
He particularly enjoys writing about aspects of the history of Christianity for a popular readership.
Salvador has edited over twenty books and three special issues of the online journal Religions, and has published numerous articles and book chapters on aspects of popular religion and ritual from the Middle Ages to the present day. He is also a frequent media contributor, both to newspapers such as the Irish Times and Irish Independent, international publications such as The Tablet and the National Catholic Reporter, and many other periodicals. He has also featured on a number of TV and radio documentaries and podcasts.
He particularly enjoys writing about aspects of the history of Christianity for a popular readership.
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On 21 January 2021, theologians and philosophers from St Patrick’s College Maynooth, Co. Kildare offered their thought-provoking perspectives on these issues.
This paper asks whether the year 2020 will represent the 'final rupture' in the history of Irish Catholicism.
Books by Salvador Ryan
Topics covered in this volume include: the theme of light in early Irish texts; festive feasting and fighting in the Middle Ages; the Kilmore carols of County Wexford; the history of Irish Christmas food through the centuries; crimes of Christmas past; Christmas on the Blasket Islands; the claim that ‘Santa’s Grave’ is in County Kilkenny; why Irish missionaries in Zimbabwe regularly missed out on their Christmas dinner; the origins and early life of the Late Late Toy Show; a Christmas surprise among Irish peacekeepers in the Lebanon; Christmas customs among the Travelling Community; Christmas and the Irish Jewish community; the Wren Boys; ‘Women’s Christmas’; Irish links to popular Christmas carols; Christmas and James Joyce; the curious custom of reciting 4,000 Hail Marys in the lead up to Christmas, and why it became an established tradition for the Viceroy to send a woodcock to the British monarch every Christmas.
This anthology will prove a fascinating read for all who are interested in the social, cultural, and religious history of Ireland, but, more importantly, will delight all who love Christmas itself
What emerges is a reflection on the theme of reform within the church: what it has meant in the past, what it means for us now, and what it might mean in the future.
Contributors include:
Christopher M. Bellitto
Shaun Blanchard
Agnès Desmazières
Massimo Faggioli
Francis Gonsalves, SJ
Julia Knop
Bishop Vincent Long, OFMConv
Rafael Luciani
Declan Marmion
Ethna Regan
Pedro Trigo, SJ
Following the success of the three-volume series, Birth, Marriage and Death and the Irish (2016-2021), this collection examines the celebration of Christmas among the Irish, from the seventh century to the present day. In 75 articles, ranging from the serious to the light-hearted, writers from a range of academic disciplines and professions – Anthropology, Celtic Studies, Education, Folklore, Healthcare, History, Journalism, Literature, Media, and Broadcasting, Pastoral Ministry, Philosophy and Theology – reflect on what Christmas has meant to Irish people through the ages, whether living at home or abroad.
Topics covered in this volume include: the theme of light in early Irish texts; festive feasting and fighting in the Middle Ages; the Kilmore carols of County Wexford; the history of Irish Christmas food through the centuries; crimes of Christmas past; Christmas on the Blasket Islands; the claim that ‘Santa’s Grave’ is in County Kilkenny; why Irish missionaries in Zimbabwe regularly missed out on their Christmas dinner; the origins and early life of the Late Late Toy Show; a Christmas surprise among Irish peacekeepers in the Lebanon; Christmas customs among the Travelling Community; Christmas and the Irish Jewish community; the Wren Boys; ‘Women’s Christmas’; Irish links to popular Christmas carols; Christmas and James Joyce; the curious custom of reciting 4,000 Hail Marys in the lead up to Christmas, and why it became an established tradition for the Viceroy to send a woodcock to the British monarch every Christmas.
This anthology will prove a fascinating read for all who are interested in the social, cultural, and religious history of Ireland, but, more importantly, will delight all who love Christmas itself
What emerges is a reflection on the theme of reform within the Church: what it has meant in the past, what it means for us now; and what it might mean in the future.
The chronological span and multidisciplinary nature of the contributions in this volume attest to the breadth of Raymond Gillespie’s curiosity, interests, expertise and influence, which have always transcended conventional boundaries.
Terence Dooley is Professor of History (Maynooth University), Mary Ann Lyons is Professor of History (Maynooth University) and Salvador Ryan is Professor of Ecclesiastical History (Pontifical University, St Patrick’s College Maynooth).
https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/new-year-folder/the-historian-as-detective/
From modest beginnings in 1795 as a small seminary of thirty students and ten professors, Maynooth expanded rapidly, becoming a Pontifical University, a constituent college of the National University of Ireland and, at one time, the largest seminary in world. It has educated many thousands of students and led the way in many branches of the arts and sciences. And for its alumni it is also a tapestry of rich memories.
Lest these memories dwindle in the collective consciousness, the authors have complied a selection of pen pictures, personal reminiscences and sketches on aspects of the college's life and history. Contributions range from across the spectrum of religious, artistic, political, and academic endeavour, with essays by Archbishop Eamon Martin, Mary O'Rourke, Frank McGuinness, Susan McKenna-Lawlor and Liam Lawton, among many others.
This splendid book is part history, part folk-history, part aide-mémoire. For some, it will be an introduction to this historic centre of learning, for others it will be an evocation of memories, reminiscences and encounters, some that describe actual events and others that delve between the lines of history offering portraits of characters that passed through the college and the people that journeyed with them.
Salvador Ryan is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at St Patrick's College, Maynooth and has published widely on popular religious culture from the Middle ages to the twentieth century. John-Paul Sheridan is a priest of the Diocese of Ferns. He joined the staff at St Patrick's College Maynooth as Education Programmes Coordinator and currently lectures in Religious Educations and Catechesis, Liturgy and Children and Systematic Theology.
We Remember Maynooth: A College Across Four Centuries, edited by Salvador Ryan and JP Sheridan is published in Ireland and the UK by Messenger Publications. Priced at €50/£40
For more information see: www.messenger.ie/product/we-remember-maynooth-a-college-across-four-centuries/
https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/40863
1. Contributors may write about any aspect of the history of pregnancy, birth, and the early stages after birth, among the Irish (at home or abroad) from the earliest centuries to the present day.
2. The volume will be truly interdisciplinary, including submissions from the fields of history, geography, folklore, anthropology, theology, sociology, obstetrics, midwifery, literature, gender studies, etc.
3. Contributions should be in the region of 1,200 to 1,300 words.
4. They should be typed in Word, in Times New Roman font, at 1.5 spacing.
5. They should be aimed at a general, but also informed reader.
6. Contributions will not feature footnotes. Instead, the main sources for the piece can be mentioned in a brief "Further Reading" section at the end of the article, and this should include 3-5 bibliographic / archival references max.
7. Proposals of topics may be sent to salvador.ryan@spcm.ie by Friday 25 October 2019.
8. Deadline for submissions of completed contributions to salvador.ryan@spcm.ie is Thursday 5 December 2019.
9. The format will follow that already used in previous volumes. Further information on the first two volumes can be found through the links below:
https://wordwellbooks.com/Death
https://wordwellbooks.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1887
10. This volume, like previous volumes, will be illustrated, and so high-res images (no less than 300dpi), with relevant copyright and reproduction rights already cleared, are very welcome.
In eighty articles written by seventy-five contributors, scholars from a range of academic disciplines, including History, Art History, Celtic Studies, English Literature, Theology, Sociology, Archival Studies, and Folklore, along with practitioners working in both religious and humanist ministries, reflect on Irish marriages over the centuries, both at home and among the Irish diaspora.
Topics covered include:
Early Irish law concerning marriage; secrets of the medieval Irish bed; why romantic trysts in churches had become so common in the later Middle Ages; 16th century Irish court cases concerning impotence, drunkenness, and dowries; domestic violence in early modern Ireland; the ‘oldest bishop in Christendom’ and his eighteen-year-old wife; a case of bigamy among the Irish in 17th century Portugal; clandestine marriages; mixed marriages; a runaway romance in mid-nineteenth-century Sydney; the 19th century honeymoon; murder at a wedding in Knocknamuckly in 1888; the tale of the aristocrat and the actress; marriages during the First World War; marriage and the introduction of the children’s allowance; marriage divination; marriage in Irish folklore; weddings among Dublin’s 20th century Jewish community; desertion and divorce ‘Irish-style’; marriage among Presbyterian and Methodist communities in Ireland; weddings and the Travelling community; finding one’s future spouse in the Farmer’s Journal; the Woman’s Way guide to successful marriages in 1960s’ Ireland; humanist weddings; the introduction of marriage equality; and much more.
This anthology will serve as an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the social, cultural, religious and legal history of Ireland and will ensure that you will never think of Irish marriage in the same way again.
In eighty articles written by seventy-five contributors, scholars from a range of academic disciplines, including History, Art History, Celtic Studies, English Literature, Theology, Sociology, Archival Studies, and Folklore, along with practitioners working in both religious and humanist ministries, reflect on Irish marriages over the centuries, both at home and among the Irish diaspora.
Topics covered include:
Early Irish law concerning marriage; secrets of the medieval Irish bed; why romantic trysts in churches had become so common in the later Middle Ages; 16th century Irish court cases concerning impotence, drunkenness, and dowries; domestic violence in early modern Ireland; the ‘oldest bishop in Christendom’ and his eighteen-year-old wife; a case of bigamy among the Irish in 17th century Portugal; clandestine marriages; mixed marriages; a runaway romance in mid-nineteenth-century Sydney; the 19th century honeymoon; murder at a wedding in Knocknamuckly in 1888; the tale of the aristocrat and the actress; marriages during the First World War; marriage and the introduction of the children’s allowance; marriage divination; marriage in Irish folklore; weddings among Dublin’s 20th century Jewish community; desertion and divorce ‘Irish-style’; marriage among Presbyterian and Methodist communities in Ireland; weddings and the Travelling community; finding one’s future spouse in the Farmer’s Journal; the Woman’s Way guide to successful marriages in 1960s’ Ireland; humanist weddings; the introduction of marriage equality; and much more.
This anthology will serve as an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the social, cultural, religious and legal history of Ireland and will ensure that you will never think of Irish marriage in the same way again.
Four Courts Press
cordially invites you to the launch of
The Cultural Reception of the Bible:
Explorations in theology, literature and the arts
Essays in honour of Brendan McConvery, CSsR
Salvador Ryan & Liam M. Tracey, OSM, editors
at 8.00 p.m. on Wednesday 5 December 2018
in Pugin Hall, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare
The book will be launched by Aidan Mathews, RTÉ,
& Rev. Dr Ken Newell, former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.
RSVP (acceptance only) Four Courts Press | info@fourcourtspress.ie
If you are unable to attend the launch but would still like to purchase a copy
of this book, please contact Four Courts Press directly at 01 453 4668.
*************************
To learn more about this book, visit the Four Courts Press website at
http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2018/the-cultural-reception-of-the-bible/
This Special Issue of Religions will focus on lived religion and devotional practices as found in the domestic settings of medieval and early modern Europe. More particularly, it will investigate to what degree the experience of personal or familial religious practice in the domestic realm and the more public expression of faith in liturgical or communal settings intersected.
In choosing this theme, this Special Issue wishes to build on the significant research that has been undertaken in recent years on domestic devotion in the early modern period, most notably the volumes produced by the ERC-funded interdisciplinary project Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home, but also in other studies such as Jessica Martin and Alec Ryrie (eds), Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012) and Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy, ed. Maya Corry, Marco Faini and Alessia Meneghin (Leiden: Brill, 2018). More broadly, in 2014 the Ecclesiastical History Society chose for its 50th volume of Studies in Church History the theme Religion and the Household, which contains, among others, at least twelve contributions on the early modern period.
The specific topic of medieval domestic devotion has been slower to generate significant treatments such as those mentioned above, although there have been fine edited collections such as Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Andrew Spicer and Sarah Hamilton (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), which contain a number of medieval essays, and helpful article contributions by Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane (‘”Medieval Domestic Devotion”, History Compass 11:1 (2013)) and others. This issue aims to respond, in part, to the final section of this article, which sets out some directions for future research. Therefore, it especially welcomes contributors who may wish to consider the relationship between domestic religious practice across medieval Christianity, Judaism and Islam, or to focus in particular on any one of the three faiths. Elisheva Baumgarten’s Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) and Megan H. Reid’s Law and Piety in Medieval Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) serve as excellent exemplars of this kind of study. While certainly welcoming contributions on early modern domestic devotion, it is nevertheless hoped that a significant number of the essays gathered in this collection will shed much-needed light on this topic within the broad field of medieval studies.
This Special Issue also wishes to broaden the geographical range of enquiry: thus, while we welcome contributors writing on Western Europe, articles which examine aspects of domestic devotion in Central and Eastern Europe are particularly encouraged to submit proposals.
Topics which might be covered include: books of hours and their use; the domestication of devotion to public images through the production of printed replicas for households; the construction of sacred space in the home; the use of candles, icons, relics, prayer mats, altars, pilgrimage badges, agnus deis, holy water; the communal reading of religious or devotional texts; the practice of fasting; the recitation of prophylactic prayers and the gestures associated with them; the portrayal of domestic devotion in saints’ lives; didactic tracts and their instructions regarding the practice of faith in the home; the adoption of liturgical elements into domestic religious practice, etc.
Prof. Dr. Salvador Ryan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
Late medieval Christianity
Lived religion
Domestic devotion
Materiality
Icons
Relics
Religious art
Household
Liturgy
Hagiography
Books of hours
Devotional reading
History of the emotions
Published Papers
This special issue is now open for submission.
In choosing this theme, this Special Issue wishes to build on the significant research that has been undertaken in recent years on domestic devotion in the early modern period, most notably the volumes produced by the ERC-funded interdisciplinary project Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home, but also in other studies such as Jessica Martin and Alec Ryrie (eds), Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012) and Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy, ed. Maya Corry, Marco Faini and Alessia Meneghin (Leiden: Brill, 2018). More broadly, in 2014 the Ecclesiastical History Society chose for its 50th volume of Studies in Church History the theme Religion and the Household, which contains, among others, at least twelve contributions on the early modern period.
The specific topic of medieval domestic devotion has been slower to generate significant treatments such as those mentioned above, although there have been fine edited collections such as Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Andrew Spicer and Sarah Hamilton (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), which contain a number of medieval essays, and helpful article contributions by Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane (‘”Medieval Domestic Devotion”, History Compass 11:1 (2013)) and others. This issue aims to respond, in part, to the final section of this article, which sets out some directions for future research. Therefore, it especially welcomes contributors who may wish to consider the relationship between domestic religious practice across medieval Christianity, Judaism and Islam, or to focus in particular on any one of the three faiths. Elisheva Baumgarten’s Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) and Megan H. Reid’s Law and Piety in Medieval Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) serve as excellent exemplars of this kind of study.
This Special Issue also wishes to broaden the geographical range of enquiry: thus, while we welcome contributors writing on Western Europe, articles which examine aspects of domestic devotion in Central and Eastern Europe are particularly encouraged to submit proposals.
Topics which might be covered include: books of hours and their use; the domestication of devotion to public images through the production of printed replicas for households; the construction of sacred space in the home; the use of candles, icons, relics, prayer mats, altars, pilgrimage badges, agnus deis, holy water; the communal reading of religious or devotional texts; the practice of fasting; the recitation of prophylactic prayers and the gestures associated with them; the portrayal of domestic devotion in saints’ lives; didactic tracts and their instructions regarding the practice of faith in the home; the adoption of liturgical elements into domestic religious practice, etc.
For further information on how to submit a proposal, paste the following link into your browser:
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/devotion
On 21 January 2021, theologians and philosophers from St Patrick’s College Maynooth, Co. Kildare offered their thought-provoking perspectives on these issues.
This paper asks whether the year 2020 will represent the 'final rupture' in the history of Irish Catholicism.
Topics covered in this volume include: the theme of light in early Irish texts; festive feasting and fighting in the Middle Ages; the Kilmore carols of County Wexford; the history of Irish Christmas food through the centuries; crimes of Christmas past; Christmas on the Blasket Islands; the claim that ‘Santa’s Grave’ is in County Kilkenny; why Irish missionaries in Zimbabwe regularly missed out on their Christmas dinner; the origins and early life of the Late Late Toy Show; a Christmas surprise among Irish peacekeepers in the Lebanon; Christmas customs among the Travelling Community; Christmas and the Irish Jewish community; the Wren Boys; ‘Women’s Christmas’; Irish links to popular Christmas carols; Christmas and James Joyce; the curious custom of reciting 4,000 Hail Marys in the lead up to Christmas, and why it became an established tradition for the Viceroy to send a woodcock to the British monarch every Christmas.
This anthology will prove a fascinating read for all who are interested in the social, cultural, and religious history of Ireland, but, more importantly, will delight all who love Christmas itself
What emerges is a reflection on the theme of reform within the church: what it has meant in the past, what it means for us now, and what it might mean in the future.
Contributors include:
Christopher M. Bellitto
Shaun Blanchard
Agnès Desmazières
Massimo Faggioli
Francis Gonsalves, SJ
Julia Knop
Bishop Vincent Long, OFMConv
Rafael Luciani
Declan Marmion
Ethna Regan
Pedro Trigo, SJ
Following the success of the three-volume series, Birth, Marriage and Death and the Irish (2016-2021), this collection examines the celebration of Christmas among the Irish, from the seventh century to the present day. In 75 articles, ranging from the serious to the light-hearted, writers from a range of academic disciplines and professions – Anthropology, Celtic Studies, Education, Folklore, Healthcare, History, Journalism, Literature, Media, and Broadcasting, Pastoral Ministry, Philosophy and Theology – reflect on what Christmas has meant to Irish people through the ages, whether living at home or abroad.
Topics covered in this volume include: the theme of light in early Irish texts; festive feasting and fighting in the Middle Ages; the Kilmore carols of County Wexford; the history of Irish Christmas food through the centuries; crimes of Christmas past; Christmas on the Blasket Islands; the claim that ‘Santa’s Grave’ is in County Kilkenny; why Irish missionaries in Zimbabwe regularly missed out on their Christmas dinner; the origins and early life of the Late Late Toy Show; a Christmas surprise among Irish peacekeepers in the Lebanon; Christmas customs among the Travelling Community; Christmas and the Irish Jewish community; the Wren Boys; ‘Women’s Christmas’; Irish links to popular Christmas carols; Christmas and James Joyce; the curious custom of reciting 4,000 Hail Marys in the lead up to Christmas, and why it became an established tradition for the Viceroy to send a woodcock to the British monarch every Christmas.
This anthology will prove a fascinating read for all who are interested in the social, cultural, and religious history of Ireland, but, more importantly, will delight all who love Christmas itself
What emerges is a reflection on the theme of reform within the Church: what it has meant in the past, what it means for us now; and what it might mean in the future.
The chronological span and multidisciplinary nature of the contributions in this volume attest to the breadth of Raymond Gillespie’s curiosity, interests, expertise and influence, which have always transcended conventional boundaries.
Terence Dooley is Professor of History (Maynooth University), Mary Ann Lyons is Professor of History (Maynooth University) and Salvador Ryan is Professor of Ecclesiastical History (Pontifical University, St Patrick’s College Maynooth).
https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/new-year-folder/the-historian-as-detective/
From modest beginnings in 1795 as a small seminary of thirty students and ten professors, Maynooth expanded rapidly, becoming a Pontifical University, a constituent college of the National University of Ireland and, at one time, the largest seminary in world. It has educated many thousands of students and led the way in many branches of the arts and sciences. And for its alumni it is also a tapestry of rich memories.
Lest these memories dwindle in the collective consciousness, the authors have complied a selection of pen pictures, personal reminiscences and sketches on aspects of the college's life and history. Contributions range from across the spectrum of religious, artistic, political, and academic endeavour, with essays by Archbishop Eamon Martin, Mary O'Rourke, Frank McGuinness, Susan McKenna-Lawlor and Liam Lawton, among many others.
This splendid book is part history, part folk-history, part aide-mémoire. For some, it will be an introduction to this historic centre of learning, for others it will be an evocation of memories, reminiscences and encounters, some that describe actual events and others that delve between the lines of history offering portraits of characters that passed through the college and the people that journeyed with them.
Salvador Ryan is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at St Patrick's College, Maynooth and has published widely on popular religious culture from the Middle ages to the twentieth century. John-Paul Sheridan is a priest of the Diocese of Ferns. He joined the staff at St Patrick's College Maynooth as Education Programmes Coordinator and currently lectures in Religious Educations and Catechesis, Liturgy and Children and Systematic Theology.
We Remember Maynooth: A College Across Four Centuries, edited by Salvador Ryan and JP Sheridan is published in Ireland and the UK by Messenger Publications. Priced at €50/£40
For more information see: www.messenger.ie/product/we-remember-maynooth-a-college-across-four-centuries/
https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/40863
1. Contributors may write about any aspect of the history of pregnancy, birth, and the early stages after birth, among the Irish (at home or abroad) from the earliest centuries to the present day.
2. The volume will be truly interdisciplinary, including submissions from the fields of history, geography, folklore, anthropology, theology, sociology, obstetrics, midwifery, literature, gender studies, etc.
3. Contributions should be in the region of 1,200 to 1,300 words.
4. They should be typed in Word, in Times New Roman font, at 1.5 spacing.
5. They should be aimed at a general, but also informed reader.
6. Contributions will not feature footnotes. Instead, the main sources for the piece can be mentioned in a brief "Further Reading" section at the end of the article, and this should include 3-5 bibliographic / archival references max.
7. Proposals of topics may be sent to salvador.ryan@spcm.ie by Friday 25 October 2019.
8. Deadline for submissions of completed contributions to salvador.ryan@spcm.ie is Thursday 5 December 2019.
9. The format will follow that already used in previous volumes. Further information on the first two volumes can be found through the links below:
https://wordwellbooks.com/Death
https://wordwellbooks.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1887
10. This volume, like previous volumes, will be illustrated, and so high-res images (no less than 300dpi), with relevant copyright and reproduction rights already cleared, are very welcome.
In eighty articles written by seventy-five contributors, scholars from a range of academic disciplines, including History, Art History, Celtic Studies, English Literature, Theology, Sociology, Archival Studies, and Folklore, along with practitioners working in both religious and humanist ministries, reflect on Irish marriages over the centuries, both at home and among the Irish diaspora.
Topics covered include:
Early Irish law concerning marriage; secrets of the medieval Irish bed; why romantic trysts in churches had become so common in the later Middle Ages; 16th century Irish court cases concerning impotence, drunkenness, and dowries; domestic violence in early modern Ireland; the ‘oldest bishop in Christendom’ and his eighteen-year-old wife; a case of bigamy among the Irish in 17th century Portugal; clandestine marriages; mixed marriages; a runaway romance in mid-nineteenth-century Sydney; the 19th century honeymoon; murder at a wedding in Knocknamuckly in 1888; the tale of the aristocrat and the actress; marriages during the First World War; marriage and the introduction of the children’s allowance; marriage divination; marriage in Irish folklore; weddings among Dublin’s 20th century Jewish community; desertion and divorce ‘Irish-style’; marriage among Presbyterian and Methodist communities in Ireland; weddings and the Travelling community; finding one’s future spouse in the Farmer’s Journal; the Woman’s Way guide to successful marriages in 1960s’ Ireland; humanist weddings; the introduction of marriage equality; and much more.
This anthology will serve as an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the social, cultural, religious and legal history of Ireland and will ensure that you will never think of Irish marriage in the same way again.
In eighty articles written by seventy-five contributors, scholars from a range of academic disciplines, including History, Art History, Celtic Studies, English Literature, Theology, Sociology, Archival Studies, and Folklore, along with practitioners working in both religious and humanist ministries, reflect on Irish marriages over the centuries, both at home and among the Irish diaspora.
Topics covered include:
Early Irish law concerning marriage; secrets of the medieval Irish bed; why romantic trysts in churches had become so common in the later Middle Ages; 16th century Irish court cases concerning impotence, drunkenness, and dowries; domestic violence in early modern Ireland; the ‘oldest bishop in Christendom’ and his eighteen-year-old wife; a case of bigamy among the Irish in 17th century Portugal; clandestine marriages; mixed marriages; a runaway romance in mid-nineteenth-century Sydney; the 19th century honeymoon; murder at a wedding in Knocknamuckly in 1888; the tale of the aristocrat and the actress; marriages during the First World War; marriage and the introduction of the children’s allowance; marriage divination; marriage in Irish folklore; weddings among Dublin’s 20th century Jewish community; desertion and divorce ‘Irish-style’; marriage among Presbyterian and Methodist communities in Ireland; weddings and the Travelling community; finding one’s future spouse in the Farmer’s Journal; the Woman’s Way guide to successful marriages in 1960s’ Ireland; humanist weddings; the introduction of marriage equality; and much more.
This anthology will serve as an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the social, cultural, religious and legal history of Ireland and will ensure that you will never think of Irish marriage in the same way again.
Four Courts Press
cordially invites you to the launch of
The Cultural Reception of the Bible:
Explorations in theology, literature and the arts
Essays in honour of Brendan McConvery, CSsR
Salvador Ryan & Liam M. Tracey, OSM, editors
at 8.00 p.m. on Wednesday 5 December 2018
in Pugin Hall, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare
The book will be launched by Aidan Mathews, RTÉ,
& Rev. Dr Ken Newell, former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.
RSVP (acceptance only) Four Courts Press | info@fourcourtspress.ie
If you are unable to attend the launch but would still like to purchase a copy
of this book, please contact Four Courts Press directly at 01 453 4668.
*************************
To learn more about this book, visit the Four Courts Press website at
http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2018/the-cultural-reception-of-the-bible/
This Special Issue of Religions will focus on lived religion and devotional practices as found in the domestic settings of medieval and early modern Europe. More particularly, it will investigate to what degree the experience of personal or familial religious practice in the domestic realm and the more public expression of faith in liturgical or communal settings intersected.
In choosing this theme, this Special Issue wishes to build on the significant research that has been undertaken in recent years on domestic devotion in the early modern period, most notably the volumes produced by the ERC-funded interdisciplinary project Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home, but also in other studies such as Jessica Martin and Alec Ryrie (eds), Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012) and Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy, ed. Maya Corry, Marco Faini and Alessia Meneghin (Leiden: Brill, 2018). More broadly, in 2014 the Ecclesiastical History Society chose for its 50th volume of Studies in Church History the theme Religion and the Household, which contains, among others, at least twelve contributions on the early modern period.
The specific topic of medieval domestic devotion has been slower to generate significant treatments such as those mentioned above, although there have been fine edited collections such as Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Andrew Spicer and Sarah Hamilton (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), which contain a number of medieval essays, and helpful article contributions by Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane (‘”Medieval Domestic Devotion”, History Compass 11:1 (2013)) and others. This issue aims to respond, in part, to the final section of this article, which sets out some directions for future research. Therefore, it especially welcomes contributors who may wish to consider the relationship between domestic religious practice across medieval Christianity, Judaism and Islam, or to focus in particular on any one of the three faiths. Elisheva Baumgarten’s Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) and Megan H. Reid’s Law and Piety in Medieval Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) serve as excellent exemplars of this kind of study. While certainly welcoming contributions on early modern domestic devotion, it is nevertheless hoped that a significant number of the essays gathered in this collection will shed much-needed light on this topic within the broad field of medieval studies.
This Special Issue also wishes to broaden the geographical range of enquiry: thus, while we welcome contributors writing on Western Europe, articles which examine aspects of domestic devotion in Central and Eastern Europe are particularly encouraged to submit proposals.
Topics which might be covered include: books of hours and their use; the domestication of devotion to public images through the production of printed replicas for households; the construction of sacred space in the home; the use of candles, icons, relics, prayer mats, altars, pilgrimage badges, agnus deis, holy water; the communal reading of religious or devotional texts; the practice of fasting; the recitation of prophylactic prayers and the gestures associated with them; the portrayal of domestic devotion in saints’ lives; didactic tracts and their instructions regarding the practice of faith in the home; the adoption of liturgical elements into domestic religious practice, etc.
Prof. Dr. Salvador Ryan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
Late medieval Christianity
Lived religion
Domestic devotion
Materiality
Icons
Relics
Religious art
Household
Liturgy
Hagiography
Books of hours
Devotional reading
History of the emotions
Published Papers
This special issue is now open for submission.
In choosing this theme, this Special Issue wishes to build on the significant research that has been undertaken in recent years on domestic devotion in the early modern period, most notably the volumes produced by the ERC-funded interdisciplinary project Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home, but also in other studies such as Jessica Martin and Alec Ryrie (eds), Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012) and Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy, ed. Maya Corry, Marco Faini and Alessia Meneghin (Leiden: Brill, 2018). More broadly, in 2014 the Ecclesiastical History Society chose for its 50th volume of Studies in Church History the theme Religion and the Household, which contains, among others, at least twelve contributions on the early modern period.
The specific topic of medieval domestic devotion has been slower to generate significant treatments such as those mentioned above, although there have been fine edited collections such as Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Andrew Spicer and Sarah Hamilton (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), which contain a number of medieval essays, and helpful article contributions by Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane (‘”Medieval Domestic Devotion”, History Compass 11:1 (2013)) and others. This issue aims to respond, in part, to the final section of this article, which sets out some directions for future research. Therefore, it especially welcomes contributors who may wish to consider the relationship between domestic religious practice across medieval Christianity, Judaism and Islam, or to focus in particular on any one of the three faiths. Elisheva Baumgarten’s Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) and Megan H. Reid’s Law and Piety in Medieval Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) serve as excellent exemplars of this kind of study.
This Special Issue also wishes to broaden the geographical range of enquiry: thus, while we welcome contributors writing on Western Europe, articles which examine aspects of domestic devotion in Central and Eastern Europe are particularly encouraged to submit proposals.
Topics which might be covered include: books of hours and their use; the domestication of devotion to public images through the production of printed replicas for households; the construction of sacred space in the home; the use of candles, icons, relics, prayer mats, altars, pilgrimage badges, agnus deis, holy water; the communal reading of religious or devotional texts; the practice of fasting; the recitation of prophylactic prayers and the gestures associated with them; the portrayal of domestic devotion in saints’ lives; didactic tracts and their instructions regarding the practice of faith in the home; the adoption of liturgical elements into domestic religious practice, etc.
For further information on how to submit a proposal, paste the following link into your browser:
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/devotion
Applications are now welcome. See brochure attached for further details.
Equal Dignity & Agency: Catholic Social Teaching & the Lives of Women
Meghan J. Clark
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
St John’s University
Queens, NY
Monday 14 October 2024
Renehan Hall, Maynooth College,
at 7:30pm
Abstract:
The place of women in Catholic social teaching is complicated. The tradition seems to treat women more as objects of special concern than “dignified agents.” Practically, however, women are powerful agents of development within their communities. This lecture will reflect upon Catholic social teaching in light of local listening to the experiences of women working on development. This lecture will propose an ethic of local listening and Fratelli Tutti’s turn to the Parable of the Good Samaritan as providing a path for Catholic social teaching to more fully practice what it preaches.
This year's Catholic Historical Society of Ireland Annual Conference will take place in St Patrick's Campus, DCU, on Saturday 23 September 2023. The theme of this year's conference is "The Catholic Church and the Irish Civil War".
Please find the conference programme attached.
Registration is via Eventbrite at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-catholic-church-the-irish-civil-war-tickets-680751695647?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshwebdesktop
As this conference is expected to attract wide interest, early booking is advisable.
It calls for contributions from those who wish to examine the dynamics of religious change in the realm of devotional and liturgical practice as experienced by the Catholic laity over these fifty years. The emphasis will not be on ecclesiastical documents, conciliar decrees, or theological treatises in and of themselves, but in the practical outworking of their ideas and their impact on the lives of ordinary believers in what scholars now call “lived religion”.
welcomes contributions on Catholic religious practices, lived religion, and the material culture of devotion during the years 1948–1998, with special emphasis on how the Second Vatican Council and its local interpretation and implementation “on the ground” shaped the devotional lives of ordinary believers. The scope of this Special Issue is global. While it certainly welcomes contributions from English-speaking countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Ireland, etc. (all of which have much work still to be done), it especially welcomes articles from regions less well represented in the literature (such as Central and Eastern Europe). It also welcomes contributors who will take the opportunity to gather together and share the insights of local studies published in other (often minority) languages and which, thus far, have been inaccessible to many English-speaking readers. Contributions are also very warmly welcome from Asia, South America, and Africa. The aim of the Special Issue is to gain a snapshot of the devotional worlds of individuals and communities who lived through this period of significant change (and, it must be admitted, a much slower pace of change for some regions; but this is also worth noting). Articles are also sought from contributors who may wish to examine the changes to popular Catholicism in the age of Vatican II through the eyes of those of different faiths.
Topics which might be covered include popular religious literature and its content (and how this may have changed over time); letters sent to both Catholic publications and mainstream newspapers about the practicalities of adapting to religious change; the content and use of popular prayer books; holy cards: their iconography and use; oral histories which recall what it was like to have attended Mass in Latin all one’s life and then transfer to liturgy in the vernacular; reactions to the reordering of churches; catechetical practices; a comparative study of popular hymnody during this period; domestic piety in a period of change; the practice of pilgrimage; Eucharistic piety, holy hours and Corpus Christi processions; devotions to the Virgin Mary and the saints and what impact (if any) Vatican II had on these practices; popular religious practices and rituals surrounding the commemoration and burial of the dead; memorial cards and their use; membership of confraternities and their related duties; how the lived reality of post-Vatican II Catholics was viewed by other faiths, both within and without Christianity (and, especially, by members of the Jewish faith); changes in the practice of the sacraments in the fifty-year period between 1948 and 1998; the keeping of the liturgical year and its rituals.
Those who wish to write a contribution for this special should first send an email indicating an expression of interest to me at salvador.ryan@spcm.ie
It would be helpful if you could provide a working title and a short abstract (100 words) of what you hope to write on.
Duke University
will deliver this year's Annual Monsignor Patrick J. Corish Lecture
Renehan Hall, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare
Wednesday 11 March 2020
7.30pm
Further details from: salvador.ryan@spcm.ie
RSVP: specialevents@spcm.ie
will be delivered by Prof. David Morgan, Duke University, NC, on
11 March 2020 in Renehan Hall, St Patrick's College Maynooth, at 7:30pm.
Topic:
The Visual Culture of Revelation:
Visions, and the Imagery that Make Them Visible
Maynooth’s Faculty of Theology can provide expert research supervision in all major sub-disciplines of theology, which include the following:
- Systematic Theology
- Moral Theology / Theological Ethics
- Ecclesiastical History
- Biblical Studies / Sacred Scripture
Applications are invited from suitable candidates to complete a PhD in one of the above areas, beginning in September 2019. THREE scholarships are offered over a 4-year period and include tuition fees, a research allowance, and on-campus residence plan (accommodation and meals, which may be awarded as a personal stipend in the order of €10,000 per annum).
In choosing this theme, this Special Issue wishes to build on the significant research that has been undertaken in recent years on domestic devotion in the early modern period, most notably the volumes produced by the ERC-funded interdisciplinary project Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home, but also in other studies such as Jessica Martin and Alec Ryrie (eds), Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012) and Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy, ed. Maya Corry, Marco Faini and Alessia Meneghin (Leiden: Brill, 2018). More broadly, in 2014 the Ecclesiastical History Society chose for its 50th volume of Studies in Church History the theme Religion and the Household, which contains, among others, at least twelve contributions on the early modern period.
The specific topic of medieval domestic devotion has been slower to generate significant treatments such as those mentioned above, although there have been fine edited collections such as Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Andrew Spicer and Sarah Hamilton (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), which contain a number of medieval essays, and helpful article contributions by Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane (‘”Medieval Domestic Devotion”, History Compass 11:1 (2013)) and others. This issue aims to respond, in part, to the final section of this article, which sets out some directions for future research. Therefore, it especially welcomes contributors who may wish to consider the relationship between domestic religious practice across medieval Christianity, Judaism and Islam, or to focus in particular on any one of the three faiths. Elisheva Baumgarten’s Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) and Megan H. Reid’s Law and Piety in Medieval Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) serve as excellent exemplars of this kind of study.
This Special Issue also wishes to broaden the geographical range of enquiry: thus, while we welcome contributors writing on Western Europe, articles which examine aspects of domestic devotion in Central and Eastern Europe are particularly encouraged to submit proposals.
Topics which might be covered include: books of hours and their use; the domestication of devotion to public images through the production of printed replicas for households; the construction of sacred space in the home; the use of candles, icons, relics, prayer mats, altars, pilgrimage badges, agnus deis, holy water; the communal reading of religious or devotional texts; the practice of fasting; the recitation of prophylactic prayers and the gestures associated with them; the portrayal of domestic devotion in saints’ lives; didactic tracts and their instructions regarding the practice of faith in the home; the adoption of liturgical elements into domestic religious practice, etc.
For further information on how to submit a proposal, paste the following link into your browser:
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/devotion
Ollscoil Mhá Nuad
Department of History
Post-Doctoral Researcher - Frank Duff Cause for Canonisation
(12 Month Contract)
The Role
Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent
research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.
We are seeking an excellent postdoctoral researcher with skills in historical research and in the
organisation of the records associated with that research. This is a joint project between the Department
of History, Maynooth University and the Historical Commission for the Cause for the Canonisation of
Frank Duff (1889-1980), Legion of Mary. The project mentor is Dr Jacinta Prunty, head of the
Department of History, Maynooth University.
The person appointed will have a proven record of archival research and of publication, appropriate to
career stage. They will have an overall understanding of the historical context (religious, social,
economic) in which this project on the life of Frank Duff (1889-1980) is situated.
The ideal candidate will have:
A PhD in a relevant discipline (completed);
A strong academic record in archival research;
A record of scholarly work and publication appropriate to career stage and demonstrating
potential to become a significant contributor in their field;
Ability to work collaboratively with archivists, historians, and members of the Historical
Commission for the Cause for the Canonisation of Frank Duff and with the project mentor;
Excellent administrative and organisational skills.
Closing Date: 23 February 2018.
Presents
"The Liquidation of the Church"
Dr. Kees de Groot
Assistant Professor, School of Catholic Theology
Tilburg University, Netherlands
5pm, Tuesday, 13 February 2018
Renehan Hall, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth
Is religion dying out in Western societies? Is personal spirituality taking its place? Both stories are inadequate. Institutional religion is not simply coming to an end in Western societies. Rather, its assets and properties are redistributed: large parts of the church have gone into liquidation.
The metaphor of liquidation provides an alternative to approaches that merely perceive the decline of religion or a spiritual revolution. Religion is becoming liquid. By examining a number of case studies in the Netherlands and beyond, including World Youth Day, television, spiritual centers, chaplaincy, mental healthcare, museums and theatre, this presentation develops a fresh way to look at religion in late modernity and produces new questions for theological and sociological debate.
Dr. Kees de Groot is the author of academic works on a wide variety of topics including Catholic social teaching, religion in popular culture, and spiritual care. His latest book, which is the subject of this talk, is The Liquidation of the Church (Routledge, 2017). He serves on the editorial board of Religie & Samenleving. He is visiting Maynooth under the ERASMUS+ programme.
For further details, please contact brian.conway@mu.ie, Department of Sociology or salvador.ryan@spcm.ie, Faculty of Theology.
Vanderbilt University, Nashville Tennessee
"Of Pearls and Prodigals: Understanding Jesus's Parables in their Jewish Context"
Renehan Hall,
St Patrick's College,
Maynooth,
County Kildare.
Thursday 30 November at 7.30pm.
All Welcome. This event is free of charge, but please register with Eventbrite (see link attached)
http://journals.sagepub.com/home/itq
It now has a dedicated Twitter account which can be found at:
https://twitter.com/ITQjournal
Do feel free to follow the journal and to engage with us by looking out for articles in your own area of interest, perhaps by thinking about submitting an article for consideration, or by suggesting that your own published volumes be reviewed in our journal.
Dying to Live Forever: Identity and Virtue in the
Resurrection of the Bodies of the Martyrs
Professor Candida Moss
Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology
University of Birmingham
Renehan Hall, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare
Wednesday 18 October 2017
7.30pm.
RSVP: Prof. Salvador Ryan, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare.
Email: salvador.ryan@spcm.ie
The panel is entitled “New Directions in Medieval Religion” and invites proposals for 20-minute papers which broadly fall into this category. Proposals which deal with medieval theology are of course welcome, but by no means should applicants confine themselves to this area. Papers which examine the world of medieval religion more broadly – including areas such as biblical exegesis, liturgy, canon law, religious life, devotional texts, hagiography, pilgrimage, etc. – are also encouraged.
Applicants who wish to be considered for this panel should submit a proposal which includes:
Name
Postal address
Email address
Institutional affiliation
Title of proposal
300-word abstract
Successful applicants will have their travel expenses (economy airfare) to the conference covered and also two nights’ accommodation (bed and breakfast). They will also agree to submit a longer version of their paper (7,000 words) for publication in Irish Theological Quarterly within six months of the conference date[1].
Given the title of the panel, proposals which offer fresh and innovative approaches to their topics are especially welcome.
All proposals for this panel should be forwarded to Salvador.ryan@spcm.ie and will thereafter be considered by the organising committee.
The deadline for receipt of proposals for this panel is: Friday 3rd March.
[1] Although it is our hope that all three papers will be published in ITQ, this is ultimately the decision of the journal’s Editorial Board.
Prof. Carlos Eire
Department of History
Yale University
Renehan Hall, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare
Tuesday 18 October 2016
7.30pm
RSVP: Prof. Salvador Ryan, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare.
salvador.ryan@spcm.ie
This presentation constitutes an historical examination of devotional practice in the home, with special emphasis on the use of religious imagery and popular prayers.
Religious images not only fostered devotion; they also traditionally served as effective means of catechesis and moral instruction. It was not uncommon for images encountered in childhood to indelibly impress themselves upon people long into their adulthood.
This presentation will explore not only well-known “holy pictures” such as the image of the Sacred Heart, but also the images which were found in well-thumbed prayer-books, those that were engraved on religious medals or other sacramental which were often carried on one’s person, and also those which were cultivated in the mind’s eye through devotional reading.
In turn, it will examine how these images were responded to, both in word and in gesture, and how the devotional practice of the “domestic church” often closely intersected with the more public expression of piety within a liturgical setting.
In the November lecture from the Tipperary people and Places Series Professor Salvador Ryan treats us to a wonderful account of Irish customs surrounding death. November is traditionally the month for visiting graveyards and remembering relatives who have passed on. Unfortunately this is a custom which has been very difficult if not impossible for many during the current COVID restrictions.
Wednesday 18 October 2017.
The lecture was entitled:
"Dying to Live Forever: Identity and Virtue in the
Resurrection of the Bodies of the Martyrs"
The lecture can be viewed on the College's YouTube account (see link attached).
individuals, and in which its grittiness is evenly matched by its holiness. It is both deeply human and deeply authentic. For this reason, and for so many others, tolle lege.
Two 7th century accounts of the mysterious saint tell how she was nothing if not practical, helping with road schemes, solving paternity cases and dealing with a crisis pregnancy
Religious Hypocrisy, Secular Morality, and Irish Irreligion (2022)