Series: Classics of Irish History

Mingling of Swans by John Sarsfield delves into the riveting history of Casey, a member of the group of Fenians arrested in 1865 in Cork and transported to Western Australia after the failed 1867 Rising. The book features Casey's unpublished account of his experiences as a convict on roadwork parties. In addition, it includes correspondence by Casey and other Fenians,...

Jottings in Solitary by Michael Davitt consists of his drafts on many topics, written while a prisoner in solitary confinement in Portland Convict Prison, 1881-2. The "Jottings" (Davitt's title) have not been published before and contain a valuable autobiographical fragment and a frankly annotated list of Irish MPs of the time. Davitt gives his views on many other subjects, including...

This book returns to print a long-forgotten series of articles in defense of the Orange Order, a Protestant counterrevolutionary group in Ireland. In the autumn of 1835, as the Orange Order faced a parliamentary inquiry and the imminent prospect of being banned, an Old Orangeman, signing himself "Montanus," wrote a series of articles defending the Orange brethren and telling their...