Bibliography
John
McCafferty
2020
work
McCafferty, John, The act book of the diocese of Armagh 1518–1522, Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2020.
abstract:
The ecclesiastical Act Book for the southern part of the diocese of Armagh covering the years 1518–1522 is a unique survival for Ireland. Covering the marital, sexual, testamentary, reputational and other squabbles of men and women living in modern Co. Louth and adjoining counties it offers a rare and vivid glimpse into the lives of ordinary individuals in early sixteenth-century Ireland. The huge wealth of place and personal names preserved in just over 140 entries give important clues as to the ethnic composition of the Pale through the proceedings of a busy and popular court which sat in Drogheda, Termonfeckin and Dundalk. This volume provides an edited text of the original Latin manuscript along with an English summary of each case. Compiled just under twenty years before Henry VIII’s break with Rome, the Act Book of Archbishop Cromer is a key source for understanding the place of the pre-reformation church in Irish society.
abstract:
The ecclesiastical Act Book for the southern part of the diocese of Armagh covering the years 1518–1522 is a unique survival for Ireland. Covering the marital, sexual, testamentary, reputational and other squabbles of men and women living in modern Co. Louth and adjoining counties it offers a rare and vivid glimpse into the lives of ordinary individuals in early sixteenth-century Ireland. The huge wealth of place and personal names preserved in just over 140 entries give important clues as to the ethnic composition of the Pale through the proceedings of a busy and popular court which sat in Drogheda, Termonfeckin and Dundalk. This volume provides an edited text of the original Latin manuscript along with an English summary of each case. Compiled just under twenty years before Henry VIII’s break with Rome, the Act Book of Archbishop Cromer is a key source for understanding the place of the pre-reformation church in Irish society.
2009
article
John McCafferty, “Foreword”, in: Benjamin Hazard, John McCafferty (ed.), Faith and patronage: the political career of Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire, c.1560-1629 (2009).
edited work
work
comments: Reprinted in 2010
2007
work
McCafferty, John, The reconstruction of the Church of Ireland: Bishop Bramhall and the Laudian reforms, 1633–1641, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Online version published in 2009. Contents: Prologue: Ireland's English reformation -- Raising up the Church of Ireland: John Bramhall and the beginnings of reconstruction, 1633-1635 -- English codes and confession for Ireland, 1633-1636 -- The bishops in the ascendant, 1635-1640 -- Enforcing the new order, 1635-1640 -- The downfall of reconstruction, 1640-1641 -- Conclusion: reconstruction as reformation.
abstract:
Thomas Wentworth landed in Ireland in 1633 - almost 100 years after Henry VIII had begun his break with Rome. The majority of the people were still Catholic. William Laud had just been elevated to Canterbury. A Yorkshire cleric, John Bramhall, followed the new viceroy and became, in less than one year, Bishop of Derry. This 2007 study, which is centred on Bramhall, examines how these three men embarked on a policy for the established Church which represented not only a break with a century of reforming tradition but which also sought to make the tiny Irish Church a model for the other Stuart kingdoms. Dr McCafferty shows how accompanying canonical changes were explicitly implemented for notice and eventual adoption in England and Scotland. However within eight years the experiment was blown apart and reconstruction denounced as subversive. Wentworth, Laud and Bramhall faced consequent disgrace, trial, death or exile.
Online version published in 2009. Contents: Prologue: Ireland's English reformation -- Raising up the Church of Ireland: John Bramhall and the beginnings of reconstruction, 1633-1635 -- English codes and confession for Ireland, 1633-1636 -- The bishops in the ascendant, 1635-1640 -- Enforcing the new order, 1635-1640 -- The downfall of reconstruction, 1640-1641 -- Conclusion: reconstruction as reformation.
abstract:
Thomas Wentworth landed in Ireland in 1633 - almost 100 years after Henry VIII had begun his break with Rome. The majority of the people were still Catholic. William Laud had just been elevated to Canterbury. A Yorkshire cleric, John Bramhall, followed the new viceroy and became, in less than one year, Bishop of Derry. This 2007 study, which is centred on Bramhall, examines how these three men embarked on a policy for the established Church which represented not only a break with a century of reforming tradition but which also sought to make the tiny Irish Church a model for the other Stuart kingdoms. Dr McCafferty shows how accompanying canonical changes were explicitly implemented for notice and eventual adoption in England and Scotland. However within eight years the experiment was blown apart and reconstruction denounced as subversive. Wentworth, Laud and Bramhall faced consequent disgrace, trial, death or exile.
