Some punctuation has been changed to be consistent. The description of time has been made consistent. Use of a comma for example 4,30 p. Some upper case A. The Chapter headings were misnumbered in the original book. The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain. Some other changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. Printed by A. The term Fenian is derived from the Irish word Feine, the genitive case of Fian plural Fiana , the designation of a band, or rather several bands of warriors, whose duty was to defend the coasts of Ireland from foreign invasion.
The Fians, Fiana, or Fenians flourished in the third century of our era, and employed their time alternately in war, the chase, and the cultivation of poetry. James Stephens, who claims to be originator of Fenianism, was born at Kilkenny, Ireland, in He was probably familiar with the agrarian disturbances around Kilkenny in the years To him more than to any individual we owe the commission of Inquiry into the operation of the Laws of Landlord and Tenant.
This work of Mr. Somerville which I hold in my hand and from which he had cited passages will be read by generations of Irishmen yet unborn. Sir, I have read that work, and I think it is impossible for any man whatever to read it without being shocked with the manner in which landlords, as there described, have in many instances perverted their powers for harsh purposes. Nicholas Street, Montreal]. He had heard of my case and how I was persecuted.
They [family of children] were in a famishing way; and he saw her and left her [a sum of money was named but misprinted]. I told him I was going to Dublin and he gave me money and clothes, and then he took me to Dublin, and he got my case put in the Morning Chronicle in London, and he laid it also before Mr.
I take the liberty of writing to you as I know I am welcome, hoping to find you and your dear mistress, my best friend on earth, well, as this leaves me and my family at present. Them all is recovered from the fever, and you next to God was the means of it, you and your dear mistress. In the famine years I was again sent to Ireland by the proprietors of the Manchester Examiner , and on behalf of benevolent persons in England, to trace the courses of the pestilence.
