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
O'CONNELL, JOHN (1810-1858).--The chief political assistant of his
father, Daniel O'Connell. After the collapse of the Repeal Association
he received a place from the British Government.
O'CONNELL, DANIEL, JUN. (1815-1897).--The youngest of O'Connell's sons.
He sat in the British Parliament until 1863, when he was appointed to a
Government post.
O'CONOR DON, THE (1794-1847).--Repeal M.P. for Roscommon. He deserted to
the Liberals, and was made a Lord of the Treasury.
O'DEA, PATRICK.--The Young Ireland leader in Rathkeale, Co. Limerick.
O'DOHERTY, KEVIN IZOD (1823-1895).--Son of a Dublin solicitor. After his
release from transportation he settled in Australia and became prominent
in its politics and medical science. In 1885 he returned temporarily to
Ireland, and sat for a brief period in the British Parliament as
Parnellite member for Meath.
O'DONNELL, JOHN.--A Limerick solicitor and an ardent Young Irelander.
When Richard O'Gorman came to Limerick to urge the people to arms,
O'Donnell travelled through the county with him as his aide-de-camp. On
the news of the outbreak in Tipperary, O'Donnell, Doyle and Daniel
Harnett raised the country around Abbeyfeale, cut off the mails and
pitched an insurgent camp outside the town where the Abbeyfeale men
waited for O'Gorman, who was elsewhere in the county, to take command.
Before his arrival the news of the collapse at Ballingarry arrived and
the Abbeyfeale Camp broke up. O'Donnell escaped from the country with
O'Gorman.
O'DOWD, JAMES.--A Conciliation Hall lawyer. Afterwards appointed to a
legal position in connection with the London Custom house.
O'DWYER, CAREW.--Repeal M.P. for Louth, 1832-5. He deserted Repeal and
received a minor position in the Exchequer Court.
O'FLAHERTY, MARTIN.--A Galway solicitor and a member of the Irish
Confederation.
O'GORMAN, RICHARD, JUN. (1826-1895).--Son of Richard O'Gorman of the
Woollen Hall, one of the foremost Dublin merchants and Catholic leaders
in the Emancipation struggle. O'Gorman settled in New York after his
escape and became a judge of the Superior Court.
O'HEA, JAMES.--A lawyer described by Davis as of "vast abilities."
O'LOGHLEN, SIR COLMAN (1819-1877).--Second baronet, son of the Master of
the Rolls. Afterwards M.P. for Clare, a Privy Councillor and
Judge-Advocate-General.
O'MAHONY, JOHN (1816-1877).--A gentleman-farmer of ancient lineage and
high scholarship. After the second attempt to kindle insurrection he
fled to the Continent and later proceeded to the United States, where
with Doheny and Stephens he founded Fenianism.
PEEL, SIR ROBERT (1788-1850).--Chief Secretary for Ireland and organiser
of the "new police"--hence "peelers." In politics an opportunist,
opposing and supporting Catholic Emancipation and Free Trade. Premier of
England, 1834-5, 1841-6.
PENNEFATHER, BARON (1773-1859).--Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer,
1821, and for thirty-eight years a judge.
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