Rankin Sherling - The Invisible Irish: Finding Protestants in the Nineteenth-Century Migrations to America

I am grateful to many people for their help with this book. Thanks are due to Jennifer Dickson, who as librarian for the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, Church House, Belfast, allowed me access to material normally restricted most especially the librarians catalogue of every Irish Presbyterian minister who ever supplied the Presbyterians of Ireland. It was from this normally restricted card catalogue that I culled my first list of Irish Presbyterian ministers who migrated to America. Thanks also to Stephen Gregory, who as librarian of the Gamble Library at Union Theological Seminary, Belfast, allowed me access to an uncatalogued trove of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century pamphlets, formerly the property of Magee College, Derry, and Assemblys College, respectively.

I would also like to thank Dominic Bryan and Eamonn Hughes of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queens University, Belfast, for providing me with an office, library privileges, and the great pleasure of inclusion in the intellectually stimulating environment there at the Institute. Thanks also to Patrick Fitzgerald for his great generosity in Omagh and the Ulster American Folk Park collections. Brian Walker was very helpful with advice and guidance, as was Liam Kennedy. To all these fine Irishmen: I would like to say thank you and that William Carleton would be well satisfied with your efforts to alleviate the sufferings of a poor scholar on the road in Ireland.

Thanks are also due to Marion Military Institute, Jared Toney, Joan Harcourt, David Wilson, James Carson, Charles Gross, to my family, and to Donald Harman Akenson. Thanks for everything.

Librarians List of Irish Presbyterian Ministers

Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, Union Theological Seminary, Belfast, Northern Ireland

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Small Differences: Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants 18151922. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1988.

Akenson, Donald Harman and W.H. Crawford. Local Poets and Social History: James Orr, Bard of Ballycarry. Belfast: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 1977.

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The Bulletin of the Western Theological Seminary. Allegheny, PA: Trustees of the Western Theological Seminary, 1909.

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Beecher, Willis J. and Mary A. Beecher, eds. Index of Presbyterian Ministers: Containing the Names of all the Ministers of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America from A.D. 1706 to A.D. 1881. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board for Publication, 1888.