Author: O'Donovan Rossa

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781230421483

Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1898 edition. Extrait: ...the country, a cousin of mine. I settled matters with him. There are magistrates in his family now. Then, there were in the town two of the men of '48 we meant to call upon--John Callanan and Maxwell Irwin. We went to John Oallanan's house, and he was not at home; we went to Maxwell Irwin's, and he was not at home; he had gone to Crookhaven to attend the auction of a cargo of a shipwreck; so the little girl told me who came to the door after I had telephoned on the bright brass knocker outside. She was a pretty little girl, too, about twelve years of age, with twinkling eyes, and red rosy cheeks and coalblack hair. She is my wife to-day. Five or six years afterward, I met Mr. Irwin's entire family--not fm-their welfare, I fear, as the boys of it found their way to prison and to exile through acquaintance with me. Clonakilty is twenty miles distant from Skibbere n. That visit I made there with Dan McCartie and Moi ty Moynahan to start the I. K. B. Organization was in 1858. Thirty-six years after, in 1894, I was invited to give a lecture there. Dan O'Leary, one of the new magistrates, presided at the lecture. Hp, too, died a few weeks ago. After the lecture thero was a big supper at the hotel. That cousin of mine whom I initiated into the I. R. B. movement in 1858 sat near me at the supper table. We talked of old times of course, but the old times are changed; one of his family is also one of the new magistrates. In those old times the magistracy was a monopoly in control of the Cromwellian plunderers of the Irish people, such as the Beechers, the Townsends, the Frenches, the Hungerfords, the Somervilles, the lords Bandon, Bantry, and Carbery, with a few of the Irish themselves who became...