tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post2506763694627776556..comments2024-03-06T07:06:38.928-08:00Comments on JSBlog - Journal of a Southern Bookreader: Samuel Carter Hall visits TopshamRay Girvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-15434668178749309462010-10-16T07:59:42.846-07:002010-10-16T07:59:42.846-07:00Interesting, as always. My ancestors were in Kerry...Interesting, as always. My ancestors were in Kerry at that time. They had a farm out on Kerry Head.Dr. Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-7894083080129790082010-10-17T11:22:16.065-07:002010-10-17T11:22:16.065-07:00As in "interesting times"... I didn'...As in "interesting times"... I didn't look into the backstory, but it was altogether a scary paranoid era in the British Isles: combined fear of outside invasion, and of internal revolt in sympathy with revolutionary America and Europe (this was the same period as when they were <a href="http://segalbooks.blogspot.com/2009/10/tom-paine-hung-in-topsham.html" rel="nofollow">burning effigies of Tom Paine</a>).Ray Girvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.com