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Author:

Madden, Richard Robert, 1798-1886. cn

Title:

The United Irishmen, their lives and times, by Richard Robert Madden ...

Edition:

newly ed., with notes, bibliography and index, by Vincent Fleming O'Reilly. [The Shamrock ed.]

Publisher:

The Catholic publication society of America

Copyright Date:

c1916

Description:

12 v. fronts., plates, ports., facsims. (part fold.) 23 cm.

Subject:

United Irishmen--Biography.--nm
Ireland--History--Emmet's Rebellion, 1803.--cm
Ireland--History--Rebellion of 1798--cm

Other Authors:

O'Reilly, Vincent Fleming, ed.

Notes:

"This edition is strictly limited to one thousand numbered sets." This set not numbered.

Contents:

(cont.) --v.8. Up for the green. Robert Emmet. Leonard MacNally. Roger O'Connor. Samuel Neilson.--v.9. The rising of the moon. Samuel Neilson. Henry and John Sheares.--v.10. The patriot mother. Henry and John Sheares. The Wexford leaders.--v.11. Ninety-eight. The Welford [i. e. Wexford] leaders. Secret service money expenditure. Secret service money revelations. The governmental spy and informer system. Major Sirr and "his people."--v.12. The informer. Correspondence of the spies and informers, chiefly of 1798 and 1803, with their employer, Major Sirr. Extracts from the original précis book of the Kildare magistrates' proceedings. Manifesto of the provisional government. Report in manuscript of Robert Emmet's speech. The spy system. List of the names of persons included in the Fugitive bill and Banishment act. Religion professed by persons of eminence, or leading members of the United Irish society. Bibliography (p. 202-235) Chronological outline of Irish history. Index.
v.1. Editor's preface. The memory of the dead. Memoir of R. R. Madden. Historical introduction. Father Sheehy. Illegal associations. The Orangemen. The Volunteers. The borough parliament. Early Irish reformers.--v.2. The Shan Van Vocht. Aim of the United Irishmen. Origin of the United Irishmen. New organization. Military organization. Use of torture. End of the rebellion.--v.3. Tone's grave. Theobald Wolfe Tone. Archibald Hamilton Rowan.--v.4. Erin. Arthur O'Connor. Lord Edward Fitzgerald.--v.5. The wearing of the green. Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Rev. William Jackson. Thomas Addis Emmet.--v.6. O! Breathe not his name. Thomas Addis Emmet. William James Macneven. Robert Emmet.--v.7. The croppy boy. Report on the investigation to determine the burial place of Robert Emmet. Robert Emmet.

LCCN:

16014704

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)