ROSSA’S RECOLLECTIONS.
1838 TO 1898.
CHILDHOOD, BOYHOOD, MANHOOD.
Customs, Habits and Manners of the Irish People.
Erinach and Sassenach—Catholic and Protestant—Englishman and Irishman—English Religion—Irish Plunder.
SOCIAL LIFE AND PRISON LIFE.
The Fenian Movement. Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America.
By O’DONOVAN ROSSA
O’DONOVAN ROSSA,
MARINER’S HARBOR, N. Y.
1898.
Copyright
1898
O’Donovan Rossa
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER |
|
PAGE |
| I. |
The Cradle and the Weaning |
5 |
| II. |
At my Grandfather’s |
10 |
| III. |
My Schooldays |
22 |
| IV. |
Irish Fireside Story and History |
35 |
| V. |
The Emigrant Parting.—Carthy Spauniach |
51 |
| VI. |
The Gladstone Blackbird.—Many Features of Irish Life |
61 |
| VII. |
The Lords of Ireland |
71 |
| VIII. |
A Chapter on Genealogy |
80 |
| IX. |
“Repeal of the Union” |
101 |
| X. |
How England Starved Ireland |
108 |
| XI. |
The Bad Times: The “Good People.” Jillen Andy: Her Coffinless Grave |
119 |
| XII. |
1847 and 1848 |
130 |
| XIII. |
The Scattering of My Family.—The Phœnix Society |
141 |
| XIV. |
Love and War and Marriage |
151 |
| XV. |
Doctor Jerrie Crowley, Doctor Anthony O’Ryan, Charles Kickham, The Phœnix Society |
177 |
| XVI. |
The Start of Fenianism |
199 |
| XVII. |
Arrest of the Phœnix Men |
206 |
| XVIII. |
A Star-Chamber Trial |
216 |
| XIX. |
The McManus Funeral—James Stephens and John O’Mahony visit Skibbereen—Fenianism Growing Strong |
234 |
| XX. |
The Struggle against the Enemy |
251 |
| XXI. |
James Stephens and John O’Mahony |
269 |
| XXII. |
A Letter of much Import, Written by James Stephens, in the Year 1861 |
282 |
| XXIII. |
John O’Mahony, Wm. Sullivan, Florry Roger O’Sullivan, Brian Dillon, Jack Dillon, Michael O’Brien, C. U. O’Connell, James Mountaine, and others. |
300 |
| XXIV. |
Administering Relief to Poor People.—A Fight with the Landlords. |
320 |
