Cardinal Paul Cullen and his world

Dáire Keogh & Albert McDonnell, editors

From the mid-19th century, the authority of Cardinal Paul Cullen (1803–78) was ubiquitous within Irish society and the English-speaking world. Contemporaries spoke of the ‘Cullenization of Irish society’; a Times obituary celebrated him as ‘an agent of great change’, while a critical James Joyce lampooned the cardinal as the ‘apple of God’s eye’. The book brings together 30 scholars who offer a broad perspective on the Cardinal and his age.

Contributors include:
Eamon Duffy (U Cambridge), Mary E. Daly (UCD), Virginia Crossman (Oxford Brookes U), Gerard Moran (NUIG), Liam Chambers (Mary I), Thomas Bartlett (U Aberdeen), S.J. Connolly (QUB), Ian Ker (Oxford U), James H. Murphy (DePaul U), Miriam Moffitt (NUIM), Joe Doyle, Anne Marie Close, Andrew Sheilds, Dáire Keogh (all St Pat’s, DCU), Matthew Kelly (Southampton U), Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, Amy McKinney, Anne O’Connor (all NUIG), Christopher Korten (U Poznan), Norman Tanner SJ (Gregorian U, Rome), Ciarán O’Carroll (Clonliffe College, Dublin), Eileen Kane (UCD), Fintan Cullen (U Nottingham), Colin Barr (Ave Maria U), Kevin O’Neill (Boston College), Rory Sweetman (U Otago), Oliver Raftery, SJ (Heythrop College) and Emmet Larkin (U Chicago).

Dáire Keogh lectures in St Patrick’s College, DCU, and is the author of, most recently, Edmund Rice and the first Christian Brothers (2008). Albert McDonnell is vicerector of the Irish College, Rome.