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Seamus Mac Gearailt, Clonpriest, County Cork: Letter in poetic form, sent to Padraig Cundun, Deerfield, near Utica, Oneida County, New York, 2 April 1836
Luaigh an doiciméad seo Amharcóir IIIF
Bailiúchán Cundun Letters
Title Seamus Mac Gearailt, Clonpriest, County Cork: Letter in poetic form, sent to Padraig Cundun, Deerfield, near Utica, Oneida County, New York, 2 April 1836
Description Author counsels Cundun not to be sad for having emigrated; rather, he was fortunate to have excaped from impoverished, oppressed Ireland, where the Gaels and their Church had endured centuries of conquest, destruction, and persecution. Mac Gearailt praises Daniel O'Connell and his chief political lieutenants, and their leadership in the Tithe War against the hated established church. Praises local O'Connellite politicians in Youghal, who have overthrown the town's "tolls and customs," which was a landlord tax on local market transactions, and who defeated the Tory/Protestant candidate at the last Parliamentary election. [Letter transcript shows the original text in Irish, alongside an English translation.]
Date 02/04/1836
Date Issued 27/03/2023
Cineál Acmhainne Text
Archival Record Id p155/25/2
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 6pp
Topic Cundun Letters
Geographic Clonpriest (civil parish),Cork (county),Ireland,Deerfield (town),Oneida (county),New York (state),United States
Temporal Nineteenth century,Eighteen thirties
Genre Transcript
Note Translation from Irish language to English by Dr. Bruce D. Boling (collaborator of Professor Kerby Miller). Irish language version of the letter included alongside the translated text. Transcript text, title and description by Professor Kerby Miller. Letter transcribed from: O'Foghludha R. (1932). Padraig phiarais cun'dun 1777-1856. Oifig diolta foillseachain rialtais.
Creator / Author Name Seamus Mac Gearailt