Name: Possessed By the Devil: The Real History Of The Islandmagee Witches And Ireland's Only Mass Witchcraft Trial
Author: Andrew Sneddon (Author)
ISBN: 184588745X

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Possessed By the Devil: The Real History Of The Islandmagee Witches And Ireland's Only Mass Witchcraft Trial

Author(s): Andrew Sneddon (Author)

Publisher: The History Press
Publication Date: 1 May 2013
Language: English
Print length: 232 pages
ISBN-10: 9781845887452
ISBN-13: 184588745X

Book Description

In 1711, in County Antrim, eight women were put on trial accused of orchestrating the demonic possession of young Mary Dunbar, and the haunting and supernatural murder of a local clergyman’s wife. Mary Dunbar was the star witness in this trial, and the women were, by the standards of the time, believable witches – they smoked, they drank, they just did not look right. With echoes of Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’, and in fact Mary Dunbar repeated many of the reports from the Salem Wtich-trials word for word in court, this is a story of murder, of hysteria, and of how the ‘witch craze’ that claimed over 400,000 lives in Europe played out on Irish shores.

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‘Possessed by the devil is erudite, accessible and very readable. Sneddon meticulously embeds his story in its wider British and European context as it unfolds, and brings a great deal of scholarship to bear on his tale … as both a very good read and a genuinely fascinating (and overdue) excursion into Irish cultural history, it can be highly recommended.’

— Dr Johnn Gibney ― History Ireland

‘Andrew Sneddon is bidding fair to become the leading expert on the trials for witchcraft in early modern Ireland … Irish trials were, famously, few. That at Carrickfergus, County Antrim, in 1711, provoked by events on nearby Islandmagee, was the largest of them … It is also one of the best-documented in the British Isles … These qualities make it a very suitable subject for a book-length case- study, which Sneddon now richly provides’

— Prof. Ronald Hutton ― Irish Historical Studies

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Updated and expanded edition

About the Author

Dr ANDREW SNEDDON (BA Hons, MLitt, PhD, FHEA) is a lecturer in history at the University of Ulster. Originally from Scotland, Dr Sneddon pursued his post-graduate and post-doctoral research at the University of St Andrews, Lancaster University and Queen’s University, Belfast. He has also worked as an archivist at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), and taught history at Queen’s University, Belfast and Glasgow University. Dr Sneddon is the leading expert on the history of Irish witchcraft and magic and has published widely in leading, international academic journals, as well as edited collections, in the fields of British and Irish early modern social, medical and political history (c.1550-1800). In addition to presenting papers at academic conferences (both national and international), he gives talks to local community, heritage and educational groups, and is working with leading practitioners to turn his books into museum exhibitions, graphic novels, VR apps, and video games.

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