Religion, civil society and imperial authority
Journal: Cambridge University Press eBooks
Year: 2011

As the Whigs ascended to power and the battle for parliamentary reform raged in Britain during the 1830s and 1840s, the British Empire began to yield further opportunities for the rising Catholic Irish middle classes eager to join their more established Protestant counterparts in imperial service. Under the Whig government, Irish Catholic seminaries and religious institutions began to supply numerous Vicars Apostolic and clergy to attend to the spiritual requirements of the Empire’s ever-expandi