| Title: | A. Newman re a letter of James Tully, Portadown. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1959 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Newman, A/67 |
| Year | unknown |
| Sender | Newman, A. |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | unknown |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | unknown |
| Relationship | unknown |
| Source | T 1577: Copied by Permission of G. Ward Esq., 82 Clonard Gardens, Belfast. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9404104 |
| Date | 10/06/1889 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 20:04:1994. |
| Word Count | 805 |
| Genre | |
| Note | N.B. he writes regarding a letter (dated 1889) by a James Tully from Portadown, Co. Armagh, N.Ireland |
| Transcript | An Amazing Document By A. Newman Lying before me at this moment there is an amazing document. I very much dislike unrestrained language; but those who read this article will, when they have finished, be incapable of saying that my title lacks restraint. The document before me is a letter written on June [10?]th 1889, by James Tully, of 14 West Street, Portadown, at which time he was over seventy years of age. I shall proceed to quote without comment:- "Dear John, just a few lines to answer your last letter which I received all right [alright?]. I see by it you wish to have a copy of old Dan's prophesies [prophecies?]. Well I am sending you them in my own handwriting. You may be sure they are from the original MS [manuscript?]. I suppose you often heard tell of old Dan. He is considered by those who knew him a most wonderful man. He was better known as the Lonely Wayside Wanderer. Here goes his prophesies [prophecies?]:- "Little children, you are all very gay and sprightly although your country is oppressed. But the day will come when your country's oppressor shall fall. A war will be declared upon her one day many years distant, which she will have to pay a terrible price for. But many great things are to happen before that takes place, and many shall die by the wayside, hunger and starvation will be the portion of the children of the Gael, disease will increase, sins will increase; and death will be welcomed in many a home. Multitudes of trouble shall come, diseases abound and remedies fail. A woman ruler shall die owing to this great war which I speak of, and peace will be won at a great price. A great man will come forth and call with a great voice to the children of the Gael to get blended together. He will relieve Banba of many sorrows. But another man from the north will oppose this man in everything, and he will be the cause of many deaths. It is he who shall be the cause of England's downfall. He will live in the reign of the woman and the second King from the woman! But during the reign of the first King from the woman peace will be preserved, and no wars shall take place during his reign. But the second King ruler shall fear nothing. He shall be the last King of your oppressor. It will come that the nations shall contrive his downfall, and he will be drawn into a struggle on land and sea. And to win the children of the Gael to fight for him he will sign their peace. But there shall be a dispute amongst the children of the Gael, for in their hands they shall bear an instrument of war, and they, some of them shall refuse to go and fight. In the papers they the Gael, will hear of the Saxons winning, and some indeed will go, but others will remain at home. But after this great war the nations will not agree. 'Tis then the war will be waged against the Saxons on land and sea. The first war will commence at the turning of the oats, about harvest time. And after the first war the second shall follow, when England's boasting fleet, yea, in one week, shall be cut away and destroyed. It is then the war will come to Ireland, and the northern settlers shall wage war - war, indeed, without fear on the real Gaels the North, South, East and West. For all the inhabitants of Banba shall be up in arms. But the Gaels shall win in three hard days bloody contest the freedom of their country. But during this time of darkness a fleet shall come from Columbia, another from Spain. The Columbian fleet shall go to England. The Spanish to Ireland. The Spanish shall help the Gaels to free Ireland from the Saxon settlers, and they, the Spanish and the Gaels, shall not leave what a bird would carry away in its claw of Saxon flesh. But, sad to my heart, Dublin will be overthrown and burned. And England in those days shall be in the hands of Franks, Spaniards, Turks and Huns. To 1870 conjoin four tens and five, take one away: the war shall commence; add one, the war will have Saxon's rule no more. Add twenty-four more and England shall become the dowry of [Mary?]. France shall become a repubic [republic?]; and after this war France will become a monarchy. A pure King shall reign in Ireland, and peace, happiness and prosperity shall be her reward until seven periods before the end of the world." Any comment on my part would be out of place, as the interpretation is so obvious as to be almost uncanny. |
