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