Evidence: | Robert Peel to John Wilson Croker [undated], to accompany 'a collection of choice documents'
on Ireland:
'The little volume called "A Sketch of Irish History" is a more infamous work than Cox's
magazine [Irish nationalist publication described earlier in letter, a copy of which also
enclosed]. I have the volumes from which it contains some excerpta. They contain a regular
history of Ireland, and on the first page are these words, printed at the bottom, "Intended
chiefly for the Young Ladies educated at the Ursuline Convents. By a member of the Ursuline
Community at Ash."
'This work is written with great care -- most mischievous and inflammatory -- and yet it is
thought to be impossible to convict the printer for libel.
[...]
'Perhaps the most noteworthy and extraordinary document of all is the letter which I send you.
It was written by a priest in Longford to one of his flock, whom he suspected of giving
information. He admitted the writing of it to Major Wiles, a police magistrate, but he has not
been convicted yet, and therefore names must not be used. Pray read it, it is very curious --
an admirable example of the purposes for which the priests of Ireland exert their spiritual
influence.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | (probably) Ireland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Robert Peel |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1788 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Politician |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | (probably) Ireland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | 'a priest at Longford' |
Title: | letter to parishioner |
Genre: | Other religious, Politics |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 24215 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Louis L. Jennings | |
Title: | The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of The Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.,D., F.R.S. | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1884 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 89-90; 90 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Louis L. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of The Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.,D., F.R.S. (London, 1884), 1, p. 89-90; 90, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24215, accessed: 02 May 2024 |
Peel served as Chief Secretary for Ireland 1812-18; letter included in section of source covering period 1814-1816. |
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