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Emmet Larkin teaches and researches in British and Irish history from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. For a number of years he has been researching and writing a history of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland between 1780 and 1918 that is now projected at twelve volumes. He has completed eight volumes of his history, and is working on his ninth, The Devotional Revolution in Ireland, 1850-1880.

Publications

James Larkin, Irish Labour Leader, 1876-1947 (1965)

The Historical Dimensions of Irish Catholicism (1976)

The Making of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, 1850-1860 (1980)

The Consolidation of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, 1860-1870 (1987)

The Roman Catholic Church and the Home Rule Movement in Ireland, 1870-1874 (1990)

The Roman Catholic Church and the Emergence of the Modern Irish Political System, 1874-1878 (1996)

The Roman Catholic Church and the Creation of the Modern Irish State, 1878-1886 (1975)

The Roman Catholic Church and the Plan of Campaign in Ireland, 1886-1888 (1978)

The Roman Catholic Church and the Fall of Parnell, 1888-1891 (1979)

Alexis de Tocqueville's Journey in Ireland, July-August, 1835 (1990), editor and translator.

A Memoir of Joseph Prost, C. Ss. R.: The Founding of the Redemptorist Parish Mission Movement in Ireland, 1851-1854 (1998) editor and translator with Herman Freudenberger.

The Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Pre-famine Ireland, 1750-1850 (2006)

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Emmet Larkin

Professor Emeritus of History
Ph.D. Columbia 1957