THE

LIFE STORY

OF

AN OLD REBEL

BY

JOHN DENVIR

AUTHOR OF "THE IRISH IN BRITAIN" "THE BRANDONS" ETC.

DUBLIN

SEALY, BRYERS & WALKER 86 MIDDLE ABBEY STREET

1910

John Denvir

CONTENTS.

CHAPTERPAGE
I.—Early Recollections—"Coming Over" from Ireland1
II.—Distinguished Irishmen—"The Nation" News-paper—"The Hibernians"10
III.—Ireland Revisited27
IV.—O'Connell in Liverpool—Terence Bellew MacManus and the
Repeal Hall—The Great Irish Famine48
V.—The "No-Popery" Mania—The Tenant League—The Curragh Camp58
VI.—The Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood—Escape of James Stephens—
Projected Raid on Chester Castle—Corydon the Informer73
VII.—The Rising of 1867—Arrest and Rescue of Kelly and Deasy—
The Manchester Martyrdom89
VIII.—A Digression—T.D. Sullivan—A National Anthem—
The Emerald Minstrels—"The Spirit of the Nation"113
IX.—A Fenian Conference at Paris—The Revolvers for the
ManchesterRescue—Michael Davitt sent to Penal Servitude123
X.—Rescue of the Military Fenians139
XI.—The Home Rule Movement148
XII.—The Franco-Prussian War—An Irish Ambulance Corps—
The French Foreign Legion160
XIII.—The Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain170
XIV.—Biggar and Parnell—The "United
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