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Robert Wallace
1812–1866
A 19th-century Irish clergyman and religious writer, best known today for a sermon written in response to the public burning of Bibles at Kingstown in 1855. His surviving work captures the fierce religious arguments of the period in direct, urgent language.
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About the author
Remembered as the Rev. Robert Wallace, he wrote in the middle of the 19th century and is associated with religious controversy in Ireland. The work most clearly linked to him is A Voice from the Fire (1855), a sermon prompted by the public burning of the Bible at Kingstown.
That sermon shows him as a forceful Protestant preacher addressing questions of faith, conscience, and public life. His writing is serious and argumentative rather than literary in the modern sense, but it gives a vivid glimpse of the tensions and convictions that shaped religious debate in his time.
Reliable biographical details about his wider life are limited in the sources I could confirm here, so much of his personal story remains unclear. Even so, the work that survives makes him a useful figure for readers interested in Irish religious history, 19th-century sermon writing, and the printed controversies of the era.