Religion and Greater IrelandImpelled by economic deprivation at home and spiritual ambition abroad, nineteenth century Irish clerics and laypeople reshaped the many sites where they came to pray, preach, teach, trade, and settle. So decisive was the role of religion in the worlds of Irish settlement that it helped to create a "Greater Ireland" that encompassed the entire English speaking world and beyond. Rejecting the popular notion that the Irish were passive victims of