Seamus Mac Gearailt, Clonpriest, County Cork: Letter in poetic form, sent to Padraig Cundun, Deerfield, near Utica, Oneida County, New York, 2 April 1836
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
Resource Type
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.