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T nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented expansion of Christianity. The impetus came from Protestants, and one of the principal features of their efforts to convert the world was ‘an international, transatlantic and pan-evangelical or ecumenical character’. Evangelicalism was a movement of religious renewal amongst Protestants that emerged from various tributaries in the early eighteenth century and was characterised by personal conversion and missionary activity. Evangelical zeal was suffused with Enlightenment thought and involved a commitment to voluntary domestic support and self-supporting and self-regulating indigenous churches. The consequence of these developments is that the numerical heartlands of Christianity are now to be found outside European Christendom, in Africa, south-east Asia, and South America. The coterminous expansion of the British Empire has led scholars to consider the connections between missionary activity and ‘cultural imperialism’ through an examination of the mutual support, suspicion, and hostility between the agents of empire and missionaries. Historians have also begun to examine how churches throughout the United Kingdom increasingly felt it their duty to provide for the

Protestants and ‘Greater Ireland’: mission, migration, and identity in the nineteenth century