A year after the failure of his July 1848 rebellion in Tipperary, William Smith O’Brien found himself in a small cottage, isolated from other convicts, on Maria Island, Van Diemen’s […]
Read More →If you enjoyed the first instalment of David A. Wilson’s Thomas D’Arcy McGee biography (HI 16.6, Nov./Dec. 2008, reviews, p. 65), you’ll want to take a look at this second […]
Read More →Sir, —As a Confederate re-enactor, you can imagine how interested I wasto read the May/June issue’s article on Irish nationalist/southernsecessionist John Mitchel. Having experienced severe difficulty infinding reliable, detailed information […]
Read More →When Charles Hart (1824?-98), a Young Irelander from Dublin, was inWashington in March 1849 during a tour of the United States he took theopportunity to pay a visit to Matilda […]
Read More →Not many leaders of armed rebellions in Ireland during the centuries of English rule had the opportunity to mull over their actions in later days. One who did was William […]
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