Forming Catholic Communities assesses the histories of Irish, English and Scots colleges established abroad in the early-modern period for Catholic students. The contributions provide a co-ordinated series of case studies which reflect the most up-to-date research on the colleges.

Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction  Liam Chambers and Thomas O’Connor Part 1: Patronage and Service 1 Irish Collegians in Spanish Service (1560–1803)  Thomas O’Connor 2 Seraphic Sparks: The Irish Franciscan and Capuchin Colleges on the Continent  Mícheál Mac Craith 3 Pietas Austriaca and ‘Dispensers of Royal Authority’: The Early Irish Colleges and Habsburg Cultural Strategies  Declan M. Downey Part 2: Migration and Schooling 4 ‘Bullworks against the furie of heresie’: Identity, Education, and Mission in the English Jesuit College of St Omers  Jan Graffius 5 The English Benedictines in Eighteenth-Century Lorraine  Frédéric Richard-Maupillier Part 3: Faction and Finance 6 The Spanish Court, Ecclesiastical Patronage, and the Irish College of Santiago de Compostela (1611–17)  Ciaran O’Scea 7 The Early Failures of the Irish College Rome, 1628–78  Matteo Binasco 8 Financial Mismanagement at the Irish College, 1772–98  Christopher Korten Part 4: Print and Culture 9 English Recusant Controversy in Spanish Print Culture: Dissemination, Popularisation, Fictionalisation  Ana Sáez-Hidalgo 10 Creating an Irish Identity: Print, Culture, and the Irish Franciscans of Louvain  Marc Caball Part 5: Afterlives – Surviving the Nineteenth Century 11 The ‘British Establishments’, the Irish College in Paris and Restoration France, 1814–30  Liam Chambers 12 The Trouble with France: Making Scots Priests in France, 1818–78  Iida Saarinen 13 The Transformation of the Irish College, Paris: War, Education, and Administration, 1870–1918  Justin Dolan Stover Index