Irish recollections / Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna ; edited Patrick Maume.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charlotte Elizabeth, 1790-1846.

Contributor:

Maume, Patrick.

Series:

Classics of Irish history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland.

Ireland--Politics and government--19th century.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 176 pages : portrait ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dublin : University College Press, 2004.

Summary:

'To be sure I hated Ireland most cordially; I had never seen it, and as a matter of choice would have preferred New South Wales, so completely was I influenced by the prevailing prejudice against that land of barbarism!' Thus Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna recalled in her memoirs her view of Ireland as she had set off for that country in 1818. But she came to love Ireland, so much so that after her death her grave was planted with shamrocks. In this abridged version of the second edition of Personal Recollections (1847), Tonna gives a vivid account of her time in Ireland, of the violent activities of the Rockite movement in the mid-1820s in Kilkenny-Tipperary, and of the apocalyptic ultra-Evangelical 'siege mentality' during the Tithe War and the run-up to Catholic Emancipation. It is also a valuable memoir of her religious and literary development.

Contents:

Personal Recollections xv

Letter V. Ireland 3

Letter VI. Religious Progress 19

Letter VII. Kilkenny 32

Letter VIII. The Workings of Popery 46

Letter IX. The Dumb Boy 60

Letter X. England 80

Letter XI. Sandhurst 94

Letter XII. Separation 109

Letter XIII. National Apostacy 123

Letter XIV. Employment 137

Letter XV. Darkness and Light 154

Letter XVI. A Removal 162

Letter XVII. Ireland 169.

Notes:

First published in 1841 as "Personal recollections" by Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, London.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1904558100

OCLC:

55072022