John Mitchel: Extract from 'The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps)' pertaining to the Famine

The following is an extract from John Mitchel's work "The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps)" (1876). It deals with the policies and actions of the British in the decades leading up to the Famine - and how the mass starvation was a culmination of British policy.  ______________________________________________________________________ In 1843, the Government sent forth one of their endless "Commissions" the famous "Landlord and Tenant...

Speeches From The Dock: Thomas Russell

The following is an extract taken from the text "Speeches From the Dock Part 1/Protests of Irish Patriotism" first published in 1868. __________________________________________________ THOMAS RUSSELL. When Emmet was dead, and the plan to which he devoted his fortune, his talents, and his life, had sunk in failure, the cause of Irish independence appeared finally lost, and the cry, more than once repeated in after times, that...

Speeches From The Dock: John O'Leary

JOHN O'LEARY. "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone; it's with O'Leary in the grave" 'September 1913',  W.B.Yeats. On 16 September 1865  John O'Leary was arrested along with several others including Thomas Clarke Luby, and tried on charges of high treason, later reduced to 'treason felony' in relation to his activities with the IRB and his involvement with the newspaper 'The Irish People'.' The following is...