This focused collection of essays on the alternative establishments which both Presbyterians and Catholics attempted to create in Britain and Ireland offers a dynamic new perspective on the evolution of post-reformation religious communities within Britain and Ireland.

Robert Armstrong is Associate Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin|Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin is Senior Lecturer in the School of History and Archives at University College Dublin

1. Alternative establishments? Insular Catholicism and Presbyterianism - Robert Armstrong and Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin
2. 'Replant the uprooted trunk of the tree of faith': the Society of Jesus and the continental colleges for religious exiles - Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.
3. 'Genevan Jesuits': crypto-Presbyterians in England - Polly Ha
4. Riots, rescues and 'grene bowes': Catholic popular protest in Ireland, 1570-1640 - Clodagh Tait
5. Authority, agency and the reception of the Scottish national covenant of 1638 - Laura Stewart
6. The influence of the Irish Catholic clergy in shaping the religious and political allegiances of Irish Catholics, 1603-41 - David Finnegan
7. Politics and religion in the Westminster Assembly and the 'grand debate' - Chad Van Dixhoorn
8. Coping with alternatives: religious liberty in royalist thought 1642-7 - Anthony Milton
9. 'The remembrance of sweet fellowship': relationships between English and Scottish Presbyterians in the 1640s and 1650s - Ann Hughes
10. The ascent to establishment status: the Irish Catholic hierarchy of the mid-seventeenth century - Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin
11. The Irish alternative: Scottish and English Presbyterianism in Ireland - Robert Armstrong
12. The laity and the structure of the Catholic church in early modern Scotland - R. Scott Spurlock
13. Between Reformation and Enlightenment: Presbyterian clergy, religious liberty and intellectual change - John Coffey
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