About Desmond Bowen Desmond Bowen, Ph.D. is Professor of History at Charleton University Ottawa. He is the author of The Protestant Crusade in Ireland 1800–70 (1978); Souperism: Myth or Reality? (1971); and The Idea of the Victorian Church (1968). Books by Desmond Bowen The Idea of the Victorian Church A Study of the Church of England, 1833-1889 by (author) Desmond Bowen Paul Cardinal Cullen and the Shaping of Modern Irish Catholicism by (author) Desmond Bowen The Protestant Crusade in Ireland, 1800-70 A Study of Protestant-Catholic Relations Between the Act of Union and Disestablishment by (author) Desmond Bowen
