Protestant Millennialism, Evangelicalism and Irish Society, 1790-2005

CRAWFORD GRIBBEN is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester, UK. He is author of The Puritan Millennium: Literature and Theology, 1550-1682 (2000) and co-editor with T.C.F. Stunt of Prisoners of Hope? Aspects of Evangelical Millennialism in Scotland and Ireland, 1800-1880 (2005), and with Kenneth Newport of Expectations of the End: Contemporary Millennialism in Social and Historical Context (2006). ANDREW R. HOLMES is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University, Belfast, UK. He is author of The Sh

• Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors A Glossary of Terms Introduction: Antichrist in Ireland: Protestant Millennialism and Irish Studies; C.Gribben Watchmen in Zion: Millennial Expectancy in Late Eighteenth-Century Ulster; M.Hill The Bible Gentry: Evangelical Religion, Aristocracy, and the New Moral Order in the Early Nineteenth Century; I.Whelan John Nelson Darby: Contexts and Perceptions; T.C.F.Stunt 'Come, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come!': The Writing and Thought of Edward Nangle, 1828-1862; T.J.Kelley Battle Plans and Battlegrounds: Protestant Mission Activity in the Dublin Slums, 1840s-1880s; J.Prunty The Uses and Interpretation of Prophecy in Irish Presbyterianism, 1850-1930; A.R.Holmes 'The Dreamy Mazes of Millenialism': William Graham and the Irish Presbyterian Mission to German Jews; N.M.Railton Unionism and the Eschatological 'Fate of Ulster', 1921-2005; P.Mitchel Conclusions; C.Gribben & A.R.Holmes Index