This Week's Acquisitions

• Esi Edugyan, Washington Black (Knopf, 2018).  A young slave in Barbados is forced to go on the run and winds up voyaging across the globe.  (Amazon)
• Oliver P. Rafferty, The Catholic Church and the Protestant State: Nineteenth-Century Irish Realities (Four Courts, 2008).  As the title suggests, mostly essays on the intersections between the church hierarchy and Anglo-Irish politics and politicians (including Disraeli and Gladstone).  (Amazon)
• Michael P. Carroll, Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion (Johns Hopkins, 1999).  Argues that holy wells emerged as central only in the post-Reformation period, with a focus on early nineteenth-century practice.  (Amazon)
• Donald Akenson, Exporting the Rapture: John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North American Evangelicalism (Oxford, 2018).  How Darby and the Plymouth Brethren wound up exerting an unexpectedly outsized influence on American religious culture.  (Amazon)