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    Catholic power and the Irish city: modernity, religion, and planning in Galway, 1944-49 (Pre published)

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    Butler, R. (2020) 'Catholic power and the Irish city: modernity, religion, and planning in Galway, 1944-49', Journal of British Studies, 59(3), 521-54.
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    2020-07
    Author
    Butler, Richard
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    Butler, R. (2020) 'Catholic power and the Irish city: modernity, religion, and planning in Galway, 1944-49', Journal of British Studies, 59(3), 521-54.
    Abstract
    A major town planning dispute between church and state in Galway in the 1940s over the location for a new school provides a lens for rethinking Ireland's distinctive engagement with modernity. Using town planning and urban governance lenses, this article argues that existing scholarship on the postwar Irish Catholic Church overstates its hegemonic power. In analyzing the dispute, it critiques the undue focus within European town-planning studies on the state and on the supposedly “rational” agendas of mid-century planners, showing instead how religious entities forged parallel paths of urban modernity and urban governance. It thus adds an Irish and an urban-planning dimension to existing debates within religious history about urbanization and secularization, showing how adaptive the Irish Catholic Church was to high modernity. Finally, with its focus on a school building, it brings a built environment angle into studies of education policy in Ireland. In seeking to revisit major historiographical debates within town planning, religious history, and studies of urban modernity, the article makes extensive use of the recently opened papers of Bishop Michael Browne of Galway, a noted public intellectual within the Irish Catholic Church and a European expert on canon law.
    Keywords
    Catholic Church
    Irish history
    Galway
    Urban history
    Religious history
    Town planning
    Education history
    Language (ISO 639-3)
    eng
    Publisher
    Cambridge University Press
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    Material on these pages is copyright Cambridge University Press or reproduced with permission from other copyright owners. It may be downloaded and printed for personal reference, but not otherwise copied, altered in any way or transmitted to others (unless explicitly stated otherwise) without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. Hypertext links to other Web locations are for the convenience of users and do not constitute any endorsement or authorisation by Cambridge University Press.
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    https://www.cambridge.org/
    DOI
    10.1017/jbr.2020.68
    URI
    https://dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395/2993
    ISSN
    00219371
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