RECENTLY PUBLISHED

Empire and emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780-1850

By S. Karly Kehoe Published by University of Toronto Press £56.50

ISBN: 9781487541071

Empire and Emancipation considers the British empire as a vehicle for the growth of Irish and Scottish Catholic middle classes within its colonial fringes in the north Atlantic. This book will be useful to historians of the Catholic Church, Ireland, and the British empire, as its claims will ‘certainly cause considerable historical debate’.