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Entra in un mondo di storie

Ascolta e leggi

Michael Davitt

Davitt drafts on many topics while a prisoner in solitary confinement in Portland Convict Prison, 1881-3.

UCD Press

Classics of Irish History

Jottings in Solitary

John Devoy

Tells the story of a collaboration between two giants of late c19th Irish nationalism: John Devoy and Michael Davitt.

Michael Davitt: From the Gaelic American

George Moore

Moore spares neither landlords nor tenants, priests or nationalists in his narrative.

Parnell and His Island

Thomas Fennell

Thomas Fennell provides an account, previously unpublished, of life in the Royal Irish Constabulary during the turbulent 30-year period, 1875-1905. His early accounts begin during the Land Wars, and continue up to the Irish War of Independence, although by that time he was no longer serving in the force himself. Fennell was always an ardent nationalist, conscious that the RIC was a conservative body, supporting the Ascendancy and the landowning class. He criticises the repressive behaviour of the large police force dispersed in the countryside in some of its day-to-day activities. Yet he retained a loyalty to the force and explains that during the Land War the population at large understood that the police were carrying out work which they often found distasteful.

Royal Irish Constabulary: A History and Personal Memoir

James Stephens

James Stephens' "American Diary" is one of the most important documents of early Fenianism. It uncovers the difficulties facing the movement's founders, and offers an insight into mid nineteenth-century American life and the Irish-American community. It also provides a unique first-hand impression of James Stephens' striking personality. It is one of Stephens' scarce full-length pieces and one of the best written, although it has not previously been published in its entirety.