Accepted and Yet Apart: Newport’s Irish Catholics at the Dawn of the Gilded Age

John F. Quinn’s article, “Accepted and Yet Apart: Newport’s Irish Catholics at the Dawn of the Gilded Age,” is an adapted chapter from his recent book, The Rise of Newport’s Catholics: From Colonial Outcasts to Gilded Age Leaders. Newport History would like to thank the University of Massachusetts Press for allowing Quinn to share this chapter here. Quinn takes readers into the Irish Catholic community in late nineteenth-century Newport. Led by Father Philip Grace, this community navigated local controversies and international politics, experienced changes to their local dioceses, and built lasting organizations that still shape Newport. John F. Quinn is Professor of History at Salve Regina University, where he specializes in Irish history and American religious and ethnic history. He is the author of The Rise of Newport’s Catholics: From Colonial Outcasts to Gilded Age Leaders (University of Massachusetts Press), a chapter of which is excerpted in this issue. His articles have appeared in several journals, including The New England Quarterly, The Catholic Historical Review, Rhode Island History, and Newport History.