The Church of Ireland under the Stuarts

Patrick Little

"Patrick Little and his fellow contributors have pursued Gillespie's 'new way of looking at the Reformation in Ireland' as they broaden the context while simultaneously reducing the scale of their Limerick canvas." Kenneth Milne, A Church of Ireland Journal

“This superb volume offers a more nuanced and carefully contextualised picture. Rather than simply confirming a narrative of failure, the contributors collectively complicate it — revealing not a monolithic and crumbling institution, but a more varied landscape of decline and resilience, and even (at times) flourishing ... The essays offer fresh perspectives on clerical experience and the institutional life of the Church of Ireland beyond its better known figures and urban strongholds. They are concise but nuanced, and collectively they serve as valuable curtain-raisers for future scholarship. They convince the reader that the long seventeenth century was, if not quite the best of times, certainly more than simply the worst. I commend it to you heartily.” The Revd Christopher West, The Church of Ireland Gazette