AN OLD REBEL

BY

JOHN DENVIR

AUTHOR OF "THE IRISH IN BRITAIN" "THE BRANDONS" ETC.

DUBLIN

SEALY, BRYERS & WALKER 86 MIDDLE ABBEY STREET

1910

CONTENTS.

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I.—Early Recollections—"Coming Over" from Ireland1

II.—Distinguished Irishmen—"The Nation" News-paper—"The Hibernians"10

III.—Ireland Revisited27

IV.—O'Connell in Liverpool—Terence Bellew MacManus and the

Repeal Hall—The Great Irish Famine48

V.—The "No-Popery" Mania—The Tenant League—The Curragh Camp58

VI.—The Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood—Escape of James Stephens—

Projected Raid on Chester Castle—Corydon the Informer73

VII.—The Rising of 1867—Arrest and Rescue of Kelly and Deasy—

The Manchester Martyrdom89

VIII.—A Digression—T.D. Sullivan—A National Anthem—

The Emerald Minstrels—"The Spirit of the Nation"113

IX.—A Fenian Conference at Paris—The Revolvers for the

ManchesterRescue—Michael Davitt sent to Penal Servitude123

X.—Rescue of the Military Fenians139

XI.—The Home Rule Movement148

XII.—The Franco-Prussian War—An Irish Ambulance Corps—

The French Foreign Legion160

XIII.—The Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain170

XIV.—Biggar and Parnell—The "United Irishman"—

The O'Connell Centenary179

XV.—Home Rule in Local Elections—Parnell succeeds Butt as President

of the Irish Organisation in Great Britain185

XVI.—Michael Davitt's Return from Penal Servitude—Parnell and the

"Advanced" Organisation199

XVII.—Blockade Running—Attempted Suppression of

"United Ireland"—William O'Brien and his Staff in Jail—How Pat Egan

kept the flag flying209

XVIII.—Patrick Egan219

XIX.—General Election of 1885—Parnell a Candidate for Exchange

Division—Retires in favour of O'Shea—T.P. O'Connor elected for

Scotland Division of Liverpool227

XX.—Gladstone's "Flowing Tide"233

XXI.—The "Times" Forgeries Commission246

XXII.—Disruption of the Irish Party—Home Rule carried in the

Commons—Unity of Parliamentary Party Restored—

Mr. John Redmond becomes Leader252

XXIII.—The Gaelic Revival—Thomas Davis—Charles Gavan

Duffy—Anglo-Irish Literature—The Irish Drama, Dramatists,

and Actors256

XXIV.—"How is Old Ireland and how does She Stand?"268

THE LIFE STORY OF AN OLD REBEL