ODNB notes: “James Carlile (1784–1854), minister of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and educationist ... [H]e was educated at Paisley grammar school, and after a...... Read More about System of Irish Education Explained and Defended
Extraordinary and very lengthy letter written by an in-patient, possibly in Wernersville State Hospital in Berks County, Pennsylvania, an asylum for the “chronically insane.” The..... Read More about Extraordinary 28-page Autograph Letter from a Patient with Mental Illness to U.S. Senator Boies...
Scarce fourth, and apparently final, edition of this “controversial tract against the Society of Sisters of Mercy and their founder, Lydia Sellon, decrying the order’s..... Read More about A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, on the nature, government, and tendency of Miss...
As noted on the title-page, Reverend William Baillie was Rector of Clondevadock, Diocese of Raphoe, in the United Church of England and Ireland. We have..... Read More about A Brief View of the Church of Ireland, In Its Early Purity and Independence; Its Subjugation and...
Scarce Catholica/anti-Catholica-related title published in 1852 concerning The Irish Church Mission founded in 1849 with the intent to convert Ireland’s Roman Catholics to Protestantism. One..... Read More about Sketch of the Origin and Operations of the Society for Irish Church Missions to the...
