Ireland, Bible, Burn
I've been chasing a thread down a rabbit hole, to mix metaphors: burning Bibles in Ireland. I have been trying to follow up my previous post, Books condemned to be burned , by instancing episodes of Bible burning in Ireland. I am confident they're there (I recall seeing occasional newspaper accounts that I didn't log at the time) and, although I've found just one instance between 1789 and 1830 (see below), I keep looking. There was a fair amount of burning in general in Ireland. In the rumbling sustained violence of English control, fire was a general and occasional weapon of the marginalised poor in the south of the country in particular. It could be a particular weapon against protestantising missionaries, not least the Hibernian Bible Society ( wiki ) and the linked Hibernian Sunday School Society. Protestant intent The Hibernian Bible Society ( established 1808) promised much more than merely distributing scripture. Its prospectus - for a Protestant audience -