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James Huston, Ballinadee, County Cork, to his uncle, Robert Eedy, [St. Peters, Bay de Chaleur, New Brunswick], 29 July 1827
Luaigh an doiciméad seo Amharcóir IIIF
Bailiúchán Anstis-Eady-Huston Letters
Title James Huston, Ballinadee, County Cork, to his uncle, Robert Eedy, [St. Peters, Bay de Chaleur, New Brunswick], 29 July 1827
Description Huston is now employed as a schoolmaster by an evangelical Protestant society, the Dublin Association for Discountenancing Vice, which was one of the many institutional expressions of the evangelical crusade, known as the "New Reformation," to convert Irish Catholics to loyal Protestantism. Huston gives detailed descriptions of the economic distress, social unrest, and increasing emigration in southern Ireland. Much of the letter concerns what Huston views as frightening or portentous developments in Ireland (O'Connell's campaign for Catholic Emancipation) and abroad, balanced by reports of mass conversions of Irish and French Catholics to Protestantism, leading him to predict that Biblical prophecies were being fulfilled, the "End Times" were nigh, and the "Dominion of Babylon" was coming to a close .
Date 29/07/1827
Date Issued 27/03/2023
Cineál Acmhainne Text
Archival Record Id p155/5/4/1
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 3pp
Topic Anstis-Eedy-Huston Letters
Geographic Ballinadee (townland),Cork (county),Ireland,Chaleur Bay,Quebec,Canada
Temporal Nineteenth century,Eighteen twenties
Genre Transcript,Reproduction
Note Title, transcript and description by Professor Kerby Miller.
Creator / Author Name James Huston