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  • 4 - Showing, Telling, and Not Telling

  • Sarah Roddy, Maynooth University
  • Book:
    Money and Irish Catholicism
    Published online:
    20 February 2025
    Print publication:
    27 February 2025, pp 129-165

  • Summary

    This chapter concentrates on church buildings, arguing that while they were one of the most significant products of the Catholic Church’s fundraising in this period, they were also, in themselves, important sites of both highly public and deeply intimate fundraising. Taking a material culture approach, the chapter treats a sample of churches built in the post-Famine era as sources that illuminate important aspects of the financial relationship between people and priests. It first discusses the widespread understanding of the church as the ‘house of God’. It then analyses the phenomenon of sponsorship of material and sacred items in the church interior via memorial inscriptions, as well as the interaction of lay people with shrines and a variety of collecting boxes commonly located inside chapels.