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Padraig Cundun, Deerfield, near Utica, Oneida County, New York, to Tomas Stac, close to [Youghal], County Cork, 30 March 1852
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Collection Cundun Letters
Title Padraig Cundun, Deerfield, near Utica, Oneida County, New York, to Tomas Stac, close to [Youghal], County Cork, 30 March 1852
Description This is a very long letter. The best parts include Cundun's advice as to family emigration: Cundun urges parents and children to emigrate as family units; otherwise, he warns, if the children emigrate singly and separately, they will end up scattered throughout the country. Also excellent are Cundun's bitter observations on intra -communal class conflict among Catholics in Ireland . Cundun emphasizes the plight of Ireland's landless laborers, who are scorned and mistreated by haughty farmers. Also interesting, although long and repetitive, are Cundun's prose and poetic diatribes against a prototypical Irish bailiff-whom Cundun characterizes as a "bloodsucker". [Letter transcript shows the original text in Irish, alongside an English translation.]
Date 30/03/1852
Date Issued 27/03/2023
Resource Type Text
Archival Record Id p155/25/2
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 6pp
Topic Cundun Letters
Geographic Deerfield (town),Oneida (county),New York (state),United States,Youghal (town),Cork (county),Ireland
Temporal Nineteenth century,Eighteen fifties
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 Padraig Cundun