1876 JAIL JOURNAL OR FIVE YEARS IN BRITISH PRISONS by MITCHEL FENIAN REPUBLICAN

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Seller: antiquarianbooks-uk ✉️ (16,449) 100%, Location: Whitegate, Cheshire, GB, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 315181275299 1876 JAIL JOURNAL OR FIVE YEARS IN BRITISH PRISONS by MITCHEL FENIAN REPUBLICAN. In the Famine years of the 1840s he was a leading writer for the Nation produced by the Young Ireland group and their splinter from Daniel O'Connell 's Repeal Association, the Irish Confederation.

I have here for sale a book entitled JAIL JOURNAL or Five Years in British Prisons  by John Mitchel.  It is the author's edition published around 1876 by Cameron, Ferguson & Company, Glasgow.   No date stated but COPAC libraries think it is 1876 so that is good enough for me. Sub title reads 'commenced on board the Shearwater steamer, in Dublin Bay, continued at Spike Island, on board the "Scourge" war steamer, on board the "Dromedary" Hulk, Bermuda, on board the "Neptune" convict ship, at Pernambuco, at the Cape of Good Hope (during the anti-convict rebellion), at Van Diemen's Land, at Sydney, at Tahiti, at San Francisco, at Greytown, and concluding at No. 3 Pier, North River, New York'.

John Mitchel  ( 1815 – 20 March 1875) was an Irish nationalist activist, author, and political journalist. In the  Famine years  of the 1840s he was a leading writer for the  Nation  produced by the  Young Ireland  group and their splinter from  Daniel O'Connell 's Repeal Association, the  Irish Confederation . As editor of his own paper, the  United Irishman , in 1848 Mitchel was sentenced to 14-years  penal transportation , penalty for his advocacy of  James Fintan Lalor 's programme of co-ordinated resistance to exactions of landlords and to the continued shipment of harvests to England.

A classic in prison literature, the Irish Revolutionary Mitchel tells of his journey to Australia where he was sent for sedition; his escape from penal servitude in 1853 across the Pacific via Tahiti and the Sandwich Islands; and further travel to San Francisco. In New York he edited a pro-slavery journal and apparently never realized the inherent contradictions in his fight against British economic policy in Ireland and his support for slavery during the Civil War in America .

Publisher's original dark green hardboards with title lettering in gilt to the spine.  Stain to front board.  Spine very slightly darkened.  Endpapers and title page sunned.  Foxing to first few pages and in isolated spots in the book.  Spotting to page edges.  Binding firm.  320 pages.  19 x 13 cm.

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  • Non-Fiction Subject: History & Military
  • Year Printed: 1876
  • Modified Item: No
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Region: Europe
  • Author: JOHN MITCHEL
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Language: English
  • Publisher: CAMERON, FERGUSON & CO
  • Special Attributes: 1st Edition

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