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James Huston, Bandon, County Cork, to his uncle, Robert Eedy, New Bandon, Chaleur Bay, New Brunswick, 24 March 1826
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Collection Anstis-Eady-Huston Letters
Title James Huston, Bandon, County Cork, to his uncle, Robert Eedy, New Bandon, Chaleur Bay, New Brunswick, 24 March 1826
Description Very good letter, from a member of the southern Irish Protestant manufacturing community, illustrating terrible economic distress for cotton weavers in southern Ireland. Huston details high unemployment, low wages, and high food prices, all partly due to the 1826 merger of the Irish and British currencies, but more broadly representative of the severe economic depression, which largely destroyed southern Irish cotton and other manufactories. Huston reports that many are emigrating to Canada and the US. Huston had considered doing the same or migrating to England, but the English economic was also depressed and he has been promised a schoolmaster post by one of the local Protestant clergymen. This and most of Huston's letters are replete with evangelical Methodist piety and moral admonitions.
Date 24/03/1826
Date Issued 27/03/2023
Resource Type Text
Archival Record Id p155/5/4/1
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 3pp
Topic Anstis-Eedy-Huston Letters
Geographic Bandon (town),Cork (county),Ireland,New Bandon,New Brunswick,Canada
Temporal Nineteenth century,Eighteen twenties
Genre Transcript,Reproduction
Note Title, transcript and description by Professor Kerby Miller.
Creator / Author Name James Huston