The Catholic Church and the Foundation of the Northern Irish State

This original and important work examines the response of the Catholic Church to the partition of Ireland and the establishment of a separate northern state.

Based on ecclesiastical archives in Ireland, Britain and Rome, and public records in Belfast, Dublin and London, it is presented against a background of antagonism between the Catholic Church and Ulster Unionists in the early part of the twentieth century. The Church's response was one of concern for both the religious and political right…