The Felon's Track; Or, History of the Attempted Outbreak in Ireland: Embracing the Leading Events in the Irish Struggle From the Year 1843 to the Close of 1848Doheny, Michael
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The Felon's Track; Or, History of the Attempted Outbreak in Ireland: Embracing the Leading Events in the Irish Struggle From the Year 1843 to the Close of 1848
Doheny, Michael
Ireland -- History -- Rising of 1848; Young Ireland Party -- History; Young Ireland movement
MEAGHER, THOMAS FRANCIS (1823-67).--Son of the O'Connellite member of
the British Parliament for Waterford. He escaped from the British Penal
colonies to the United States in 1852 and served as Brigadier-General
on the Federal side during the civil war. When Acting-Governor of
Montana he was drowned in the Mississippi.
MEANY, STEPHEN JOSEPH.--A journalist, imprisoned in 1848 under the
Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. In the United States he became a leader of
one of the wings of the Fenian Brotherhood and, returning to Ireland in
1866, he was arrested on the way in London and sentenced to a term of
penal servitude.
MELBOURNE, LORD (1779-1848).--William Lamb, second Viscount, Chief
Secretary of Ireland, 1827-8, and Premier of England with brief
intervals from 1834 to 1841.
MILEY, JOHN, D.D. (1805-1861).--Curate at the Catholic Pro-Cathedral,
Dublin, and private chaplain to O'Connell. He was the intermediary in
arranging the reunion of the O'Connellites with the Young Irelanders in
the stillborn Irish League. In 1849 he was made Rector of the Irish
College at Paris. On his return to Ireland he was appointed parish
priest of Bray. He was an eloquent preacher, and author of several works
on the Papacy.
MITCHEL, JOHN (1818-75).--A solicitor of Banbridge, and one of the first
Irish Protestants of note to join the Repeal Association. From the death
of Davis until the end of 1847 he was the chief writer of the _Nation_
newspaper. On his escape from the British penal colonies in 1853 he
settled in the United States, and took an active part on the Confederate
side in the civil war. He returned to Ireland a few months before his
death, and was elected member of the British Parliament for Tipperary,
as a demonstration of hostility to British Government in Ireland.
MOORE, JUDGE.--Richard Moore, called to the Bar in 1807, acted for the
defence in the trial of O'Connell and the Traversers, Liberal
Attorney-General in 1846 and "almost Lord Chancellor." He was raised to
the Bench in 1847 and died in 1858.
MONAHAN, JAMES HENRY (1804-78).--Attorney-General in 1848,
Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas, 1850.
NAGLE, DR.--"A Dublin doctor without patients," who acted as a handyman
for John O'Connell. He was devoid of ability. Subsequently he received a
small Government post.
O'CONNELL, DANIEL (1775-1847).--Successor to John Keogh in the
leadership of the Irish Catholics, and although his actual achievements
were not so much greater than those of Keogh and Sweetman, their
brilliancy threw the fame of his predecessors into the shade, where it
still rests.
O'CONNELL, MAURICE (1802-53).--Eldest son of Daniel O'Connell, and a
member of the British Parliament. He was the cleverest and most national
of O'Connell's children.
O'CONNELL, MORGAN JOHN (1804-85).--Second son to Daniel O'Connell. He
served under General Devereux in South America, entered the British
Parliament as a Repealer, deserted Repeal, and was appointed
Assistant-Registrar of Deeds.
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