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The Felon's Track: History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848
Autor: Doheny, Michael
Nakladatelství:
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ISBN: 9781443249522
Původní cena:
4624 Kč
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Excerpt: 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 BY MICHAEL DOHENY Author of The American Revolution. Hurrah for the mountain side! Hurrah for the bivouac! Hurrah for the heaving tide! If rocking the Felon's Track! ORIGINAL EDITION WITH D'ARCY M'GEE'S NARRATIVE OF 1848, A PREFACE, SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S CONTEMPORARIES, AN INDEX, AND ILLUSTRATIONS DUBLIN M.H. GILL SON, LTD. 1920 Printed and Bound in Ireland by M.H. Gill Son, Ltd. 50 Upper O'Connell Street Dublin First Edition 1914 Second Impression 1916 Third Impression 1918 Fourth Impression 1920 General Shields Dedication. TO GENERAL JAMES SHIELDS UNITED STATES SENATOR, ETC. DEAR SIR, In dedicating to you this narrative, I have been influenced by one consideration only. I have no title to your friendship. I cannot claim the most remote affinity with your career in arms. There is nothing connected with this sad fragment of history, either in fact or hope, to suggest any association with your name or achievements. But as my main object is to show that Ireland's failure was not owing to native recreancy or cowardice, I feel satisfied that of all living men, your position and character will best sustain the sole aim of my present labour and ambition. In past history, Ireland holds a high place; but her laurels were won on foreign fields, and the jealous literary ambition which raised adequate monuments to these stormy times denied to her swords the distinction they vindicated for themselves in the hour of combat. The most brilliant, unscrupulous and daring historian of France degraded the niggard praise he accorded them by making it the medium of a false and contemptible sneer. The Irish soldier, says Voltaire, fights bravely everywhere but in his own country. Without pausing here to vindicate that country from such ungrateful slander, it is enough to say that you were not placed in the same unhappy...Hodnocení uživatelů:
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