Presbyterians and the Irish language / Roger Blaney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blaney, R. (Roger), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presbyterian Church in Ireland--History.

Presbyterian Church in Ireland.

Irish language--History.

Irish language.

Ireland--Church history.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (500 p.)

Place of Publication:

Belfast, Northern Ireland : Ulster Historical Foundation, 2012.

Summary:

This book, originally published in 1996, is the first to establish the rightful place of the Irish language in the Presbyterian heritage in Ireland. It traces the Presbyterian Irish-speaking tradition from its early roots in Gaelic Scotland through the Plantation and Williamite War periods to its successive revivals in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. There are biographies of influential Irish-speaking Presbyterians, clerical and lay, whose love of the language helped to ensure its survival. The author contends that the origins of the Gaelic League are as likely to

Contents:

Presbyterians and the Irish Language; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface to the Third Printing; Preface and Acknowledgements; I Introduction; a Pre-1642; b Post-1642; c Gabriel Cornwall; d Jeremiah O'Quinn; e James Wallace; f Language of the early Presbyterians; II Arrival and Settlement: Seventeenth Century; A First Part of Century (Missionary Activity); 1 General; 2 John Abernethy; 3 Archibald Boyd; 4 John Dunlop; 5 Samuel Dunlop; 6 Robert Higginbotham; 7 Samuel Irwin; 8 Charles Lynd; 9 Archibald MacLaine; 10 James McGregor; 11 Patrick Plunkett

12 Patrick Simpson13 Robert Stewart; 14 Thomas Strawbridge; 15 James Stuart; 16 Humphrey Thompson; 17 Robert Thompson; 18 John Wilson; 19 Caleb Threlkeld; B Second Part of Eighteenth Century (Cultural Flowering); 1 General; 2 Andrew Bryson; 3 Samuel Bryson; 4 Bryson Family; 5 William Neilson; 6 Neilson Family; 7 Whitley Stokes; 8 William Laing; 9 James Steele; III Consolidation: Eighteenth Century; A Missionary Activity; 1 General; 2 Christopher Anderson; 3 The Irish Society; 4 Norman McLeod; 5 George Bellis; 6 Robert Allen; 7 John Knox Leslie; 8 Henry Cooke; 9 George Field; 10 Hugh Gordon

11 Mary Jane Alexander12 Patrick MacMenamy; 13 William Chestnutt; 14 William Crotty; 15 John Edgar; 16 Henry MacManus; 17 John Barnett; 18 Michael Brannigan; 19 Joseph Fisher; 20 Thomas Armstrong; 21 Matthew Kerr; 22 George Shirra Keegan; 23 Hamilton Magee; B Trouble in the Glens; C Revival Spirit; 1 General; 2 The Ulster Gaelic Society; 3 Robert Shipboy MacAdam; 4 Reuben J. Bryce; 5 Bryce Family; 6 James MacKnight; 7 H.R. Montgomery; 8 Sir Samuel Ferguson; 9 W.H. Drummond; 10 John Scott Porter; IV Nineteenth Century; V Presbyterian Publications in Irish; A Gaelic Revival, 1890-1915

1 General2 George R. Buick; 3 Richard Lyttle; 4 The Aberdeens; 5 Sir John Byers; 6 Thomas Wilson Dougan; 7 Thomas Hamilton; B Post 1915; 1 General; 2 Sir William Porter MacArthur; 3 Charles Dickson; 4 Rose Young; 5 Robert Lynd; 6 Hugh Walter Gaston MacMillan; 7 Ernest Blythe; 8 The Gaelic Fellowship (City Y.M.C.A.); 9 Andrew Victor Henderson; C The Present Day; VI Twentieth Century; Appendix; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-908448-64-4