24 MY DEAR UNCLE Bull. Pres. Hist. Soc. Ire., 23, 1994 25 removing to Clonmel. hope my Aunt will not dislike the removal. I am sure anything Select List of Writings Relating to is better than Armagh and a winter's morning on the Tullyhappies - land of Arcadia!8 My love and most affectionate wishes will ever attend you my dear Uncle and you Irish Presbyterianism my dear Aunt, and my Cousins, who are now beyond my recollection. I beg to be Items appearing in 1993 (with addenda for previous years) kindly remembered to Mrs. McClinchy, whom I am glad to hear from Robert is well and happy. compiled by John G.W. Erskine Your most affectionate Friend & Nephew, Carlile Pollock. This select bibliography is principally a listing of monographs, articles and theses 1. See my forthcoming publication 'Rev Dr. William Campbell of Armagh, Presbyterian and Patriot' (Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland) for further details. I am grateful to Mr. Ramsey Greer, the relating to the history of Irish Presbyterianism. It also lists some official church reports Deputy Director of the Armagh County Museum, Armagh, for permission to reproduce this letter. and certain other contemporary items which together contribute to the study of Other material of Campbell's is in the possession of the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland. Presbyterianism in Ireland. The compiler is well aware that there will be omissions 2. See a family genealogy in file MS.No.A9, Armagh County Museum, Armagh. from such a list and would welcome information about items not included. Items 3. Genealogical table in William Campbell's Bible, Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland. 4. A Vindication of the Principles and Character of the Presbyterians of Ireland. Addressed to the Bishop which have not been personally examined and for which details have been derived of Cloyne in Answer to his Book entitled, The Present State of the Church of Ireland (1787) and, An from other sources are marked with an asterisk. Examination of the Bishop of Cloyne's Defence of his Principles; with Observations on some of his Lordship's Apologists particularly the Rev. Dr. Stock; containing an Enquiry into the Constitution and Effects of our Ecclesiastical Establishment; and also an Historical Review of the Political Principles and Conduct of Presbyterians and Episcopals in Great Britain and Ireland. With a Defence of the ABOUT being a Presbyterian - [Belfast]: Publications Department, Presbyterian Church of Scotland from the Charge of Persecution brought by his Lordship's Apologist (1788). Church in Ireland, [1993]. [17]p.: ill. 5. This is very likely to be the Rev. Thomas Clark. A licentiate of the Burgher Presbytery of Glasgow, Illustrated, 'scriptomatic' style booklet for Sunday Schools, youth groups and others on structure, history between 1749 and 1751, he itinerated throughout Counties Monaghan, Tyrone, Armagh and Down to and doctrine. advance the Seceding cause. He was ordained to the pastoral charge of Ballybay in 1751. He was the leader of the Cahans exodus, in which 300 Presbyterians left for America in 1764. He died in 1792, ARMSTRONG, Douglas. 'Who wants long sermons?' Presbyterian Herald, no. 562, minister of a congregation at Long Cane, Abbeville, South Carolina, but had been for some years previous to settling there a minister in New York. Reid says he was a devout evangelical; that he April 1993, pp. 7-8. 'expressed himself in broad Scotch' and 'used very homely language in his sermons' and, referring to A glimpse at the diaries of Robert Magill, minister of First Antrim, for 1827-1828. one of his tracts, that the language was 'exceedingly uncouth, and it supplies abundant proof that its author was sadly deficient in literary polish'. However Reid warmed to his evangelical heart, as Pollock BARKLEY, John M. 'Marriage and the Presbyterian tradition,' Ulster Folklife, vol. evidently did not! J.S. Reid, History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, ed. W.D. Killen (Belfast, 1867) vol. 3, pp. 310-317. See also, J.M. Patten and A. Graham, The Somonauk Book (Chicago, 1928) 39, 1993, pp. 29-40. and J.A. Mclvor, Extracts from a Ballbay Scrapbook (Ballybay, 1975). A historical view of the legal status, liturgy and congregational oversight of marriage in Irish Presbyterianism. 6. By the Treaty of Paris of 1783 the American War of Independence had wrested control of the continent from the British colonial power. The Americans were conscious of a sense of nationhood and hopeful BEEMAN, Josiah Horton and Robert Mahony. 'The institutional churches and the for the future despite the many obstacles that stood in their way. The government and Congress were at this stage weak bodies, many of the states still jealous of their own powers and resistant to giving them process of reconciliation in Northern Ireland: recent progress in Presbyterian-Roman up completely to a central power. This is reflected in the comment about his own state and on Rhode Catholic relations' in Northern Ireland and the politics of reconciliation, edited by Island and North Carolina, the last of the thirteen states to come into the union. George Washington Dermot Keogh and Michael H. Haltzels (Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; was revered as the man who had won the war with Britain. See Hugh Brogan, The Penguin History of the United States of America (Penguin, 1990). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) pp. 150-159. ISBN: 0-521-44430-6. 7. The populated area of the Americas had until this time clustered around the eastern seaboard. Now the Examines Presbyterian-Roman Catholic initiatives, chiefly American, for reconciliation in Northern Ireland. trail west beckoned to explore and settle the vast tracts of land beyond the Appalachian Mountains. Opportunities abounded as did also the difficulties. BLAIR, S. Alexander. S. Alex Blair's County Antrim characters: 'portraits from the 8. Campbell moved to Clonmel (old) congregation in November 1789, near to his old friends and sponsors past' which first appeared in the Ballymena Guardian. Acheson to Gilmour. the Bagwell family. [Ballymena]: Mid-Antrim Historical Group, 1993. 96p. ISBN: 1-873243-11-1. Some 57 sketches, many of Presbyterian interest.