| Domain | Monograph or Collective Volume |
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| Title | Irish recollections |
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| Author |
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| Publication Date | 2004 |
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| Publisher | University College Dublin |
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| Place Of Publication | Dublin |
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| Number Of Pages | 199 p. |
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| Era Covered | 1800 — 1841 |
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| Language | English |
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| ISBN | 1904558100 |
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| Country | Ireland |
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| Notes | First published as Personal Recollections London 1840; reprinted 1847 with final chapter by the author's widower covering the last years of her life. This is an abridged reprint focussing on her Irish experiences and opposition to Catholic Emancipation. Abridged reprint of autobiography of ultra-Protestant controversialist (born Bristol 1790, died Ramsgate 1846) focussing on her residence in Kilkenny in the early C19 and subsequent opposition to Catholic Emancipation. Contains descriptions of anti-tithe violence in Co. Kilkenny and of Catholic millennialism associated with PAstorini prophecies; sees Catholic Emancipation as leading to renewed Catholic ascendancy; advocates Protestant proselytism through medium of Irish language. Introduction outlines her career, discusses her position as a woman writer (Hannah More was her role-model), her advocacy of pan-Protestant alliance of Presbyterians and Church of Ireland (she was a friend of Henry Cooke) and her apocalyptic premillennialist beliefs.|editor Patrick Maume |
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| Rights | All rights to IHO record reserved. |
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