{"product_id":"goodbye-to-catholic-ireland-0872432459-used","title":"Goodbye to Catholic Ireland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0872432459\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kenny, Mary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew countires have changed more dramatically in the last decades of the 20th century than Ireland. And the most dramatic aspect of all has been the alteration from \"Catholic Ireland\" to the \"post-Catholic\", and sometimes \"anti-Catholic\" Emerald Isle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere once the Irish identity was almost inextricably bound up with Catholicism, today the modern Irish are inclined to distance themselves from the Church, to criticize and even reject everything that was once spelled out by the very words \"Catholic Ireland\". It would not be excessive to claim that there is in Dublin today a sense of shame about Ireland's association with Catholicism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Kenny charts this change not only through orthodox historical sources, but through personal and social detail, autobiographical anecdote, popular literature, devotional literature, lonely-hearts quests and the prayers of irish mothers through the decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoodbye to Catholic Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e was widely acclaimed on it's publication in ireland and the U.K. and William Trevor chose it as his Book of the Year in the London Sunday Times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67872891076896,"sku":"USED0872432459","price":8.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91a40gQW-gL.jpg?v=1792419959","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/goodbye-to-catholic-ireland-0872432459-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}