You wouldn’t think the first interdisciplinary examination of the contemporary Catholic Church in Ireland by American-based scholars would come out of Dubuque, Iowa.
It seems like something that should come from places with deeper (or at
least more popular) Irish-American roots, such as Boston, New York,
South Bend.
But we’re delighted to say Loras College in Dubuque claims the honour.
As a school with a growing programme in Irish Studies, Loras has been
sending students to Dublin for almost 15 years, and during that time it
has been building relationships with Irish educators and scholars. One
result has been the recently-released volume, The Catholic Church in
Ireland Today, which we were fortunate to edit and publish with
Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.