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This book reconstructs the efforts that were made to establish a missionary network between the two Irish Colleges of Rome, Ireland, and the West Indies during the seventeenth century. It analyses the process which brought the Irish clergy to establish two dedicated colleges in the epicenter of early modern Catholicism and to develop a series of missionary initiatives in the English islands of the West Indies. During a period of great political change in Ireland, continental Europe and the Atlantic region, the book traces how and through which key figures and institutions this clerical channel was established, while at the same time identifying the main obstacles to its development. 

Making, Breaking and Remaking the Irish Missionary Network: Ireland, Rome and the West Indies in the Seventeenth Century

1 Introduction2 Irish Clergy in Rome in the Early Seventeenth Century3 The Beginning: The Founding of St. Isidore's and of the Irish College4 Forging the Missionary Links between the "Urbs" and "Hibernia"5 A New Dimension to the Irish Mission: The West Indies6 Missionary Supply in Crisis Years: The Colleges and Ireland7 The Colleges in Transition8 "Ten Thousand Irish Catholics extremely Oppressed by the English Heretics": Rome, and the Irish Missions in the West Indies during the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century9 ConclusionAppendix I: List of students admitted to the Irish College of Rome, 1628-64Appendix II: List of students admitted to St. Isidore's, 1625-54Bibliography