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DARRELL FIGGIS
“Jail Journals are always a fascinating study. The self-recorded thoughts and impressions of man forcibly isolated from his fellows in the solitude of the jail have a certain interest which is hard to explain. This is the case even when the recorder is a criminal. But when, as in the present instance, the individual is a highly cultured ‘political felon’ making his first acquaintance with the means and methods which twentieth century civilisation has provided for the reformation of those who transgress its laws, then, indeed, we have in such a one’s ‘Jail Journal’ something of surpassing interest.”—Mac.
THIRD EDITION
DUBLIN: THE TALBOT PRESS LTD.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
POETRY
A Vision of Life (1909)
The Crucibles of Time (1911)
Queen Tara: A Tragedy (1913)
The Mount of Transfiguration (1915)
NOVELS
Broken Arcs (1911)
Jacob Eltham (1914)
Children of Earth (Shortly)
STUDIES
Shakespeare: A Study (1911)
Studies & Appreciations (1912)
The Lyric Cry: An Anthology (Shortly)
William Carleton In “Every Irishman’s Library” (Shortly)
A CHRONICLE OF JAILS
DARRELL FIGGIS
DUBLIN THE TALBOT PRESS LIMITED 1918
THIRD EDITION
Printed at The Talbot Press, 89 Talbot Street, Dublin
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