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5. A volume of pamphlets shelved at H3.3.11
Requested on: 6 July 1866.
During his second visit to the Library, Stoker requested a volume which consists of eleven cheap pamphlets. When the volume is read from start to finish, the tracts form a sequential history of Ireland from a fake Catholic plot of 1678 to the famous siege of Derry in 1688-9.
George Walker's A True Account of the Siege of London-Derry (pictured) is a very well researched history of the siege. Its strength lay in its vivid reporting of the sufferings of the garrison.
The siege was so significant that, even today, every child in Northern Ireland knows the name of George Walker. Bram was very conscious of sectarian tensions in his own times, and privately mocked the ‘staunch’ politics of Orangemen in Belfast when he visited the town in 1878.
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5. A volume of pamphlets shelved at H3.3.11,
Marsh's Library Exhibits,
accessed May 3, 2024,
https://web.marshlibrary.ie/digi/items/show/494