Modern British Heresy

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 -

There is a conundrum about condemning and burning books in the modern age (which, for these purposes, I date from with the Act of Toleration ( wiki ) in 1689):  What is the point of burning books in an age of internet and mass literacy?  And, the flip side:  In an time of mass printing, widespread literacy, freedom of worship, increasing diversity, global communications, what is the point of orthodoxy? This was my starting point for the whole heresy project. I am not sure I am any nearer an answer than when I began, though perhaps the questions have become a little clearer.  The purpose of condemning books Condemnation ( a global timeline ) has several functions. Practically, it allows and legitimates an authority to seize and destroy any copies of an offending text that they find. Condemnation declares a marker, a line in the sands of what an authority will tolerate. It is a warning: possession of a banned book - or even a book liable to be banned - is enough to identify the holder as