KEVIN IZOD O'DOHERTY 144 BALLINGARRY, SLIEVENAMON IN THE DISTANCE (1848) 160 A STREET IN BALLINGARRY (1848) 176 THE WIDOW MCCORMACK'S HOUSE, NEAR BALLINGARRY. (1848) 192 THE KNOCKMELDOWN MOUNTAINS FROM ARDFINAN (1848) 208 DUNMANWAY PROM THE BRIDGE ON THE CORK ROAD (1848) 224 THURLES ON MARKET DAY (August, 1848) 240 JOHN O'MAHONY 256 JAMES STEPHENS 256 AHENY HILL, SHOWING THE CONSTABULARY POLICE BARRACK DESTROYED BY THE INSURGENTS (1848) 272 JOHN SAVAGE 288 LOUIS NAPOLEON 308 LEDRU-ROLLIN, GENERAL CAVAIGNAC, LAMARTINE (1848) 316 AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION There are few facts detailed in the following pages that need explanation here. If my motive in writing them were personal gratification, or simply a desire to preserve a memorial of scenes in which I took an anxious part, I might labour to make the narration more interesting to my readers, without any care for future consequences. But through every disaster I preserved unbroken faith in the purpose and courage of my country. I believed, and still believe that her true heart is faithful to liberty and hopeful for the future; and this conviction involved me in a struggle with the apparently opposite tendency of the facts I was bound to narrate. Had I to write for a new generation, upon whom these facts could have made no false impressions, my task would be easy. I am persuaded that a simple statement of all that occurred would satisfy any candid mind that no disgrace attached to Ireland in her recent discomfiture. But I must needs confess that it is a task of extreme difficulty to reconcile her fall with the pre-conceived notions or present prejudices of those who read her story through the false medium of the press; nor do I hope for more than partial success from the details I have been able to give of the circumstances of which she was the victim and the dupe.