Thomas P. Power is Sessional Lecturer in the History of Christianity, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto.

• Contents: Revelation: Tomorrow’s News Today – Reception: The Making of an Apocalyptic Moment – Proclamation: The Word is the Seed – Usurpation: The Gospel of the Mob – Annihilation: The Bugaboo Year – Reconfiguration: Pastorini Was Nothing to Me – Ascription I: Accommodating Heretics – Ascription II: Hemmed In – Lamentation: Ireland Is Growing Too Hot – Conclusion: Prophecy is History.

“[probably use full title of book]…is a tough-minded, archivally-rich, and admirably original examination of a phenomenon rarely discussed in Irish studies: the biblically-based prophetics that ran rampant in the Catholic population in the two generations between the early 1770s and the late1820s. These are associated with the figure of “Signior Pastorini” (Bishop Charles Walmesley) who read the Apocalypse of St. John in a distinctly anti-Protestant fashion. Dr. Thomas Power convincingly documents the immediate depth of these sectarian etchings upon the Irish Catholic polity and suggests the possible long-term impact of their underlying sanguinary agenda.”Prof. Donald Akenson, Queen’s University, Canada (8da8@queensu.ca)

Thomas P. Power is Sessional Lecturer in the History of Christianity, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto.

• Contents: Revelation: Tomorrow’s News Today – Reception: The Making of an Apocalyptic Moment – Proclamation: The Word is the Seed – Usurpation: The Gospel of the Mob – Annihilation: The Bugaboo Year – Reconfiguration: Pastorini Was Nothing to Me – Ascription I: Accommodating Heretics – Ascription II: Hemmed In – Lamentation: Ireland Is Growing Too Hot – Conclusion: Prophecy is History.

“[probably use full title of book]…is a tough-minded, archivally-rich, and admirably original examination of a phenomenon rarely discussed in Irish studies: the biblically-based prophetics that ran rampant in the Catholic population in the two generations between the early 1770s and the late1820s. These are associated with the figure of “Signior Pastorini” (Bishop Charles Walmesley) who read the Apocalypse of St. John in a distinctly anti-Protestant fashion. Dr. Thomas Power convincingly documents the immediate depth of these sectarian etchings upon the Irish Catholic polity and suggests the possible long-term impact of their underlying sanguinary agenda.”Prof. Donald Akenson, Queen’s University, Canada (8da8@queensu.ca)

Thomas P. Power is Sessional Lecturer in the History of Christianity, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto.

• Contents: Revelation: Tomorrow’s News Today – Reception: The Making of an Apocalyptic Moment – Proclamation: The Word is the Seed – Usurpation: The Gospel of the Mob – Annihilation: The Bugaboo Year – Reconfiguration: Pastorini Was Nothing to Me – Ascription I: Accommodating Heretics – Ascription II: Hemmed In – Lamentation: Ireland Is Growing Too Hot – Conclusion: Prophecy is History.

“[probably use full title of book]…is a tough-minded, archivally-rich, and admirably original examination of a phenomenon rarely discussed in Irish studies: the biblically-based prophetics that ran rampant in the Catholic population in the two generations between the early 1770s and the late1820s. These are associated with the figure of “Signior Pastorini” (Bishop Charles Walmesley) who read the Apocalypse of St. John in a distinctly anti-Protestant fashion. Dr. Thomas Power convincingly documents the immediate depth of these sectarian etchings upon the Irish Catholic polity and suggests the possible long-term impact of their underlying sanguinary agenda.”Prof. Donald Akenson, Queen’s University, Canada (8da8@queensu.ca)