Moral monopoly : the rise and fall of the Catholic church in modern Ireland /
Tom Inglis.
- Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 1998.
- vii, 312 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-290) and index.
Introduction -- Part one: The catholic church in contemporary Ireland -- The religious habitus of Irish catholics -- Church organisation and control -- Power and the catholic church in Irish social, political and economic life -- Part two: Origins of the power of the catholic church in Ireland -- Introduction -- The growth in power of the Institutional church in nineteenth-century Ireland -- The Irish civilising process -- The transformation of Irish society -- The Irish mother -- Part three: Decline in the power of the Catholic church in Ireland -- The decline in the catholic church's monopoly over Irish morality 1986-97 -- The influence of the catholic church on modern Irish society.