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The dissertation argues that Ulster Catholic laity inhabited a social and cultural "frontier" through the early modern period. This mentality shaped how Ulster Catholics perceived and conceived their place and community in the rapidly changing religious, socio-economic and political situation in early modern Ulster (c.1680-1830). Though sectarian attitudes and violence are viewed as inherent in Ulster and Irish history generally, this dissertation explores the social and cultural connections between Ulster Catholics and Anglo-Scot Protestant settlers, and the social and cultural world of Ulster Catholics and Catholic converts. By examining several locales and specific Catholic families in the province, a nuanced portrait of interdenominational relationships and Catholic culture and society is forwarded. Additionally, the concerns of daily life and social connections are explored to register the amount of adaptation or resistance to the changing socio-economic and political conditions in Ulster. Moreover, the attempted Tridentine reforms of Ulster Catholic practice by the Catholic upper clergy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was another "frontier" that was alternately adapted and resisted by the Ulster Catholic laity. Analysis of Catholic diocesan letters, Gaelic poetry and songs, family and estate papers, official state papers, and other contemporary works demonstrates the complexities of local interdenominational relationships and the diverse constructions of a "Catholic community" early modern Ulster.

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This thesis pertains to the efforts of the Mormons in establishing their Church among the Irish and is arranged to give a chronological account of activities there. A brief background of the establishment of Christianity in Ireland and a knowledge of numerous conflicts between Catholics and Protestants helps to understand the complex religious interaction occurring at the time Mormonism was introduced in that country. The difficulties encountered by the first Mormon missionaries in Ireland suggest reasons why the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints did not expand as rapidly as it did elsewhere in Britain and other European countries.Shortly after the missionaries arrived in 1840, a famine caused many Irish to emigrate to England and Scotland where some became Mormon converts. Many of the converted Irish emigrated to America, and several of them became prominent Irish Mormon Pioneers.Mormon history in Ireland can be divided into three major campaigns. The first was from 1840 to 1849; the second from 1850 to 1867; and the third and permanent campaign began 1884 and has continued to the present (1968). Each campaign is discussed in the thesis, and one chapter is devoted entirely to Irish opposition to Mormonism. Those who desired that the new religious doctrine not be taught in Ireland employed a variety of means to try and achieve their objective.After the turn of the century, the image of the Mormon Church in Ireland gradually changed from negative to positive due to many factors. Foremost was the fact that the worldwide image of the Church experienced a similar change. During the twentieth century there was a slow though gradual increase in membership among the Irish until World War II when Mormon missionaries were withdrawn. Due to their absence, a sharp decrease in activity occurred, but after their return in 1946, conversions and the membership both have steadily increased.Until 1962, missionary work in Ireland had been supervised from England to Scotland, but in that year Church leaders organized a separate Irish Mission. Within a year the number of missionaries increased from the usual eight or ten to well over 150. Consequently, the Church membership rose from about 600 to nearly 3700 by 1967, and four new chapels have been built during the same period to accommodate the increased membership. The thesis includes statements of mission presidents describing the significance of recent growth.The concluding chapter indicates that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ireland ranks eleventh among sixty-seven religious denominations according to the number of members. Other statistics point to factors which could influence Church growth. The appendices contain a statistical report of the year by year conversions and membership of the Church in Ireland. Also included are over one thousand names of Mormon missionaries who have served in Ireland since the work commenced there.

Thesis advisor: Guy Beiner / The Rockite insurgency, purportedly led by the mythic Captain Rock, enacted a campaign of intimidation and violence which terrorized much of southern Ireland from 1821 to 1824. While the Rockite movement was not the first agrarian redresser movement in Ireland, it was unique for the intensity of its violence, as informed by the political ideology of the movement’s participants, the Rockites. This work argues that the Rockite insurgency was political, as manifested in the Rockites’ assertion of an alternative law and their attacks against police as representatives of the state. The intervention into the historiography of agrarian redresser violence is therefore threefold. First, the politics of the Rockites were informed by both the communal morals of rural Irish society and the popular politicization of the 1790s. Second, the violence enacted in the course of the Rockite movement was not due to lawlessness, but rather an allegiance to the ‘law of Captain Rock’ instead. Lastly, the conflict between the Rockites and the state can be exemplified in their clashes with the police, not only as hostile individuals but also as representatives of the state apparatus. Focusing on County Limerick in the year 1821, this work relies on the little-used State of the Country Papers in the Chief Secretary’s Office Registered Papers collection. / Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2023. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: History.

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Thesis advisor: Paul Christensen / Contemporary public perceptions of nationalism see the concept as a toxic ideology of isolationist politicians. In contrast, through an analysis of work produced by public servants whose identities are tied more closely with those of artists than politicians, this thesis shifts focus to nationalist sentiments built around inclusivity. Using poems of Ilia Chavchavadze and Thomas Davis, this text serves as a comparative overview of nation-building strategies within Georgia and Ireland. The importance of land, myths, heroic characters, motherly figures, and calls to self-sacrifice are present in poems of both nations, uniting them in the struggle against colonial oppression and offering a common formula for creating a national identity. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2019-05. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: International Studies.