Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 3
6. The Irish in Toronto 13
7. Reform of the Roman Catholic Church 31
8. Renewal 45
9. The Parish and the Hearth: Women’s Confraternities and the Devotional Revolution 62
10. “To Bribe the Porters of Heaven”: Poverty, Salvation, and the Saint Vincent de Paul Society 97
11. “Heroic Virtue”: Parish Temperance Societies and Male Piety 127
12. “A Pariah among Nations”: The Rise of Irish Nationalism in Toronto 152
13. “Loyal Hibernians?”: Fenianism and the Hibernian Benevolent Society 168
14. “The Sacred Cause and the National Faith”: The Resurrection of Irish Nationalism 199
15. New Departures 224
16. Conclusion 254
17. Occupational Categories 261
18. Notes 263
19. Index 333