[Footnote 17: The Rev. Thresham Gregg was a notorious and blatant "anti-Popery" preacher of the period whom the wits of Young Ireland frequently made the butt of their jests. Apart from his bigoted sectarian obsession, he was, however, in several respects decidedly nationalistic, and steadily preached support of home trade and manufactures to his audiences. There can be no reasonable doubt that he recognised M'Gee. In this connection it may be stated that the Orangemen expelled from membership of their body Stephenson Dobbyn, an Orangeman who acted as a spy for Dublin Castle upon the Young Irelanders--drawing a clear and proper line between forcibly opposing their fellow countrymen and acting as spies for England upon them.] [Footnote 18: Hercules Street in Belfast, now swept away, was chiefly inhabited by butchers who were almost all Catholics and fervent O'Connellites. When the Young Irelanders attempted to hold a meeting in Belfast shortly after O'Connell's death, the butchers made a fierce attack upon them.] [Footnote 19: This narrative was written at the beginning of 1850] [Footnote 20: Law Agent to the Dublin Corporation.] [Footnote 21: Patrick Joseph Smyth] [Footnote 22: Sub-editor of the _Nation_; afterwards a clergyman.] CONTEMPORARIES MENTIONED IN "THE FELON'S TRACK" ANGLESEY, LORD (1768-1854).--Henry William Paget, who lost a leg at Waterloo and erected a monument to its memory. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1828-9, 1830-3. ANTISELL, DR. THOMAS.--A Dublin surgeon and chemist of distinction, author of various pamphlets and addresses to the Royal Dublin Society on the geology of Ireland, reafforestation, and the sanitary conditions of Irish town-life. He supplied a large part of the capital to found the _Irish Tribune_. After the failure of the insurrection he went to the United States where he had a distinguished scientific career. BANTRY, LORD.--(1801-1884) William Hare White, third earl, Lieut-Col, of the West Cork Artillery. The title became extinct in 1891. BARRY, MICHAEL JOSEPH (1817-1889).--A Cork barrister, editor of "The Songs of Ireland" in the Library of Ireland, and author of several martial pieces, including "The Flag of Green." After the failure of the insurrection he renounced Nationalism and subsequently became a Dublin Police Magistrate. BARRETT, RICHARD (17-- -1855).--Brother of Eaton Stannard Barrett of Cork, the once famous author of "All the Talents." A journalist of fortune who changed sides with agility and enlisted under O'Connell in his latter years, having formerly vilified him. BRENAN, JOSEPH (1828-1857).--The youngest of the Young Ireland leaders. Edited Fullam's _Irishman_ in 1849 and unsuccessfully attempted to revive the insurrection in Waterford and Tipperary. On his failure he emigrated to the United States and died in New Orleans. BRODERICK, CAPTAIN.--Inspector-General of Repeal Reading Rooms. He quitted Conciliation Hall after the death of O'Connell and died mentally afflicted.