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AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. A collection of 322 issues of three newpapers published in Dublin, Ireland, 1774-1778, containing extensive reports on the course of the rebellion in America, INCLUDING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE and THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDE...

Auction 09.12.1998
09.12.1998
Schätzpreis
18.000 $ - 25.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
20.700 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 70

AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. A collection of 322 issues of three newpapers published in Dublin, Ireland, 1774-1778, containing extensive reports on the course of the rebellion in America, INCLUDING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE and THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDE...

Auction 09.12.1998
09.12.1998
Schätzpreis
18.000 $ - 25.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
20.700 $
Beschreibung:

AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. A collection of 322 issues of three newpapers published in Dublin, Ireland, 1774-1778, containing extensive reports on the course of the rebellion in America, INCLUDING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE and THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION. Each 4pp. folio, 480 x 305 mm (18½ x 11.7/8 in.) and smaller, most with all margins untrimmed, tax stamps on page 1 of each issue. TOTALLING 1247 PAGES. IN REMARKABLY FINE CONDITION. CONTENTS: 1. The Public Register or Freeman's Journal , 19 May 1774 -- 22 November 1777. Together 159 issues, totalling 632 pages. 2. Hibernian Journal or Chronicle of Liberty , 26 April 1775 -- 20 October 1777. Together 158 issues, totalling 592 pages. 3. Dublin Gazette, 8 -- 27 March 1777. Together 20 pages. "Of all the parts of the Empire that did not revolt in 1775, perhaps the closest in sympathy with the revolutionary movement in North America was Ireland..." (Gipson, Triumph of Empire , 13:27). The present extensive archive of Dublin newspapers constitutes an exceptionally rich (and largely unexplored) resource for the study of the complex, at times ambivalent, reactions of the Irish people to the economic and political causes of the revolution, and to the up-and-down course of the conflict itself. In these papers, American news is treated in surprising detail, with extensive reports on military and political aspects of the conflict in despatches, proclamations and personal letters. For example, the issue of The Hibernian Journal carries the full text of the Declaration of Independence in the 21-23 August 1776 issue and the complete text of the Articles of Confederation, occupying most of the four columns on the front page of 5-7 February 1777. The Freeman's Register for 21 September 1775 the complete text of "the Address of the Continental Congress to the People of Ireland," reprinted from a New York source. Other issues contain reports on the Boston Massacre, Bunker Hill, Long Island (4½ columns), White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Quebec, etc. Ireland's interest in American news stemmed, at least in part, from the fact that a large proportion of its population had family members, friends or neighbors who had emigrated to the open lands and growing commercial centers of America, or knew men serving in English regiments which were stationed in America. Most of these emigrants, Ulster Scot Presbyterians, had a deep-seated historical antagonism to the English Parliament and many took active roles in the American political agitations of the 1760s which led to armed rebellion. As a result, "American complaints against British policies...were freely aired in the Irish press, with such a newspaper as the Public Register or Freeman's Journal giving especial emphasis to the growing alienation of Americans from the government of Great Britain" (Gipson, op.cit.). While no such violent upwelling of revolutionary activity took place in Ireland -- despite the depth of alienation evident there, too -- "the impact of the American revolution in Ireland caused an agitation...which later bore fruit" (Gipson, p.208). As C.E. Lecky notes, "there were great numbers in Ireland who regarded the American cause as their own...Never before had the question of relations of the mother-country to its dependencies been brought before the world with such a distinctness of emphasis and definition" ( A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, p.150). In particular, the insistence by Parliament on the right to levy taxes on its colonies was an issue with powerful implications in Ireland: "If the American colonies were defeated, Ireland might well lose what political liberties it possessed" (Lecky, p.152). In February 1782, the Ulster Volunteers, militia raised to defend against a possible French invasion, assembled in Dungannon and drafted resolutions asserting the right of all, including catholics, to freedom of religion, and stating Ireland's inherent right to legislative independence. That declaration was e

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 70
Auktion:
Datum:
09.12.1998
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. A collection of 322 issues of three newpapers published in Dublin, Ireland, 1774-1778, containing extensive reports on the course of the rebellion in America, INCLUDING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE and THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION. Each 4pp. folio, 480 x 305 mm (18½ x 11.7/8 in.) and smaller, most with all margins untrimmed, tax stamps on page 1 of each issue. TOTALLING 1247 PAGES. IN REMARKABLY FINE CONDITION. CONTENTS: 1. The Public Register or Freeman's Journal , 19 May 1774 -- 22 November 1777. Together 159 issues, totalling 632 pages. 2. Hibernian Journal or Chronicle of Liberty , 26 April 1775 -- 20 October 1777. Together 158 issues, totalling 592 pages. 3. Dublin Gazette, 8 -- 27 March 1777. Together 20 pages. "Of all the parts of the Empire that did not revolt in 1775, perhaps the closest in sympathy with the revolutionary movement in North America was Ireland..." (Gipson, Triumph of Empire , 13:27). The present extensive archive of Dublin newspapers constitutes an exceptionally rich (and largely unexplored) resource for the study of the complex, at times ambivalent, reactions of the Irish people to the economic and political causes of the revolution, and to the up-and-down course of the conflict itself. In these papers, American news is treated in surprising detail, with extensive reports on military and political aspects of the conflict in despatches, proclamations and personal letters. For example, the issue of The Hibernian Journal carries the full text of the Declaration of Independence in the 21-23 August 1776 issue and the complete text of the Articles of Confederation, occupying most of the four columns on the front page of 5-7 February 1777. The Freeman's Register for 21 September 1775 the complete text of "the Address of the Continental Congress to the People of Ireland," reprinted from a New York source. Other issues contain reports on the Boston Massacre, Bunker Hill, Long Island (4½ columns), White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Quebec, etc. Ireland's interest in American news stemmed, at least in part, from the fact that a large proportion of its population had family members, friends or neighbors who had emigrated to the open lands and growing commercial centers of America, or knew men serving in English regiments which were stationed in America. Most of these emigrants, Ulster Scot Presbyterians, had a deep-seated historical antagonism to the English Parliament and many took active roles in the American political agitations of the 1760s which led to armed rebellion. As a result, "American complaints against British policies...were freely aired in the Irish press, with such a newspaper as the Public Register or Freeman's Journal giving especial emphasis to the growing alienation of Americans from the government of Great Britain" (Gipson, op.cit.). While no such violent upwelling of revolutionary activity took place in Ireland -- despite the depth of alienation evident there, too -- "the impact of the American revolution in Ireland caused an agitation...which later bore fruit" (Gipson, p.208). As C.E. Lecky notes, "there were great numbers in Ireland who regarded the American cause as their own...Never before had the question of relations of the mother-country to its dependencies been brought before the world with such a distinctness of emphasis and definition" ( A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, p.150). In particular, the insistence by Parliament on the right to levy taxes on its colonies was an issue with powerful implications in Ireland: "If the American colonies were defeated, Ireland might well lose what political liberties it possessed" (Lecky, p.152). In February 1782, the Ulster Volunteers, militia raised to defend against a possible French invasion, assembled in Dungannon and drafted resolutions asserting the right of all, including catholics, to freedom of religion, and stating Ireland's inherent right to legislative independence. That declaration was e

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 70
Auktion:
Datum:
09.12.1998
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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