Exiles Undaunted

Exiles Undaunted
Author: Ross Patrick
Publisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia)
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1989
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Kevin O'Doherty (1823-1905) and his wife, Eva Kelly (1830-1910) were of Irish Catholic heritage. As an Irish nationalist poet, Eva became known as "Eva of the Nation" after the Irish paper, "Nation." Kevin was charged with treason after the Irish uprising of 1848 and exiled to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). In 1855 he secretly returned to Ireland to marry Eva Kelly. In 1856 he received a full pardon from the British government and he graduated in medicine a year later. In 1860 the O'Dohertys migrated to Australia where they played a prominent roll in civic and political affairs. Their descendents still reside in Australia.

The Hard Life

The Hard Life
Author: Flann O'Brien
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Total Pages: 186
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781564781413

A comic look at Irish life. The narrator is Finbarr, an orphan raised amid the odor of good whisky and bad cooking. With a mixture of admiration and unease he watches his brother, Manus, turn into a young man of business, successful enough to move to England.

Glimpses of an Irish Felon's Prison Life

Glimpses of an Irish Felon's Prison Life
Author: Thomas James Clarke
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781290852159

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Bone and Beauty

Bone and Beauty
Author: Jeanette M. Thompson
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0702262145

October 1830Rebelling from years of maltreatment and starvation, a band of Ribbon Boys liberate eighty convicts from Bathurst farms and lead them inland towards freedom. Governor Darling, fearing that others would also rise up, sends the 39th Regiment in pursuit. Three bloody battles follow, but to whom will justice be served?Rich with detail, Bone and Beauty fuses archival evidence and narrative technique to tell the gripping story of the Ribbon Boys and their reputed leader Ralph Entwistle. For the first time, the influence of Irish secret societies, the scale of oppression and corruption, and the complex web of criminal and family relationships behind these events are revealed.

On Another Man's Wound

On Another Man's Wound
Author: Ernie O'Malley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2001-12-21
Genre: Ireland
ISBN: 1589790049

Captures the feel of Ireland more than any other book.