Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E790001

Letter from Jane Adams, containing a private narrative of the rebellion of 1798

Author: Jane Adams

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Thomas Crofton Croker

Electronic edition compiled by Ruth Murphy, Beatrix Färber

Funded by University College, Cork and
The President's Strategic Fund via the Writers of Ireland II Project.

1. First draft, revised and corrected.

Extent of text: 19,000 words

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(2007)

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E790001

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Sources

    Manuscript source
  1. If and where this letter may be extant today is not known.
    Editions
  1. Thomas Crofton, Croker, Researches in the south of Ireland illustrative of the scenery, architectural remains, and the manners and superstitions of the peasantry, with an appendix containing a private narrative of the rebellion of 1798; introduction by Kevin Danaher. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969.
  2. John D. Beatty, Protestant women's narratives of the Irish rebellion of 1798. Dublin: Four Courts, 2001.
    Further reading: A selection
  1. Thomas Paine, The age of reason, being an investigation of true and fabulous theology. Paris [i.e. London?] 1794.
  2. Sir Richard Musgrave, Memoirs of the different rebellions in Ireland from the arrival of the English, with a particular detail of that which broke out 23 May, 1798. Dublin 1801.
  3. Sir Richard Musgrave, (ed.). Memoirs of the different rebellions in Ireland from the arrival of the English: also, a particular detail of that which broke out on 3rd May, 1798; with the history of the conspiracy which preceded it; edited by Steven W. Myers, Delores E. McKnight; with a foreword by David Dickson; indexed by Steven W. Myers, Ryan Taylor. 4th edition. Fort Wayne (Indiana, USA): Round Tower Books 1995.
  4. Jim Smyth, 'Anti-Catholicism, conservatism, and conspiracy: Sir Richard Musgrave's Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland'. Eighteenth Century Life, ns, 22:3 (1998), 62-73.
  5. Brian Cleary, 'The Wexford republic of June 1798'. In: Walter Forde (ed.), Shelmalier '98: a history of Castlebridge, Screen and Curracloe in 1798 (Shelmalier Comóradh '98, 1998) 10-18.
  6. Jim Smyth (ed.), Revolution, counter revolution and union: Ireland in the 1790s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  7. Thomas Bartlett; David Dickson; Dáire Keogh; Kevin Whelan (eds.), 1798: A Bicentenary Perspective. Dublin: Four Courts, 2003. [941.507.Bart in Boole Library]
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Researches in the south of Ireland: illustrative of the scenery, architectural remains, and the manners and superstitions of the peasantry; with an appendix containing a private narrative of the Rebellion of 1798. Thomas Crofton Croker First edition [385 pages] John MurrayLondon (1824)

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The present text covers the appendix, on pages 346–385 of the volume.

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Profile Description

Created: By Jane Adams Date range: May 1798.

Use of language

Language: [EN] The text is in English.
Language: [FR] A few words are in French.
Language: [LA] A few words are in Latin.

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