Fenians (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good + overall. First printing. The trial of returned convict John Sarsfield Casey, an activist defender of Irish tenant farmers, who earlier in his career wrote letters to Fenian newspapers as 'The Galtee Boy', which were used in his 1865 trial to support a charge of treason and a sentence of transportation to Australia. Casey was one of the 62 Fenians transported to Western Australia. He was granted a free pardon in 1869 and returned to Dublin in 1870. The 1877 trial recorded here was brought against Casey in Ireland by the agent for a wealthy land owner (Nathaniel Buckley) named Patten Smith Bridge. Bridge had imposed enormous rent increases on the Galtee Mountain tenant farmers; he alleged that Casey's articles to the press about the excessive rent increases had libeled him. Huge rents increases and the inability of farmers to pay resulted in whole families being thrown out of their homes; Casey knew these facts from personal experience as some of these tenants were his relatives. The trial lasted 8 days; Bridge's claim for damages against Casey was repudiated. 8vo, vii, 98pp. Deaccessed by the NY Association of the Bar Library, with their stamp on the title page. Tan library cloth binding with leather gilt spine label, and paper label. Cloth sunned at spine, leather label slightly rubbed. Printed on cheap newsprint paper Title page detached, chipped at edges with early paper repair on verso; Preface pages through vi chipped along gutter but holding. OCLC: 20515747.…

The present letter relates to the founding by Davitt who inspired Mahatma Gandhi of the newspaper 'Labour World', in which he was an early promoter of the British Labour Party. 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded once. The reverse of the second leaf carries a full-page engraving of the 'Arundel Hotel, | Victoria Embankment, Strand, W.C.' He begins by informing Knox that 'Mr Stead' has handed him his 'favour to him of the 12th. inst.' He continues: 'The paper alluded to in the Review of Reviews is not to be started in Ireland. It will be published in London, will be named "The Labour World" and will be under the editorial direction of | Yours very truly | Michael Davitt.'.…

folio. 3 pages. blue paper. (horizontal & vertical folds). FENIANS. Manuscript letter, in French, signed by Assistant Secretary [Étienne Parent (?) [1801-1874]], dated Secretariat Provincial Quebec, June 30, 1865, to L'Honorable M. Le Juge Mondelet, Montreal [Charles Joseph Elzéar Mondelet [1801-1876], assistant judge in Appeals of the Court of Queen's Bench, Lower Canada]. WITH Mondelet's response on same sheet of paper, in French, initialled 'CM', dated Monteal, July 1, 1865, to E.Parent. Correspondence relating to George Mathurin's conviction for "unlawfully attempting to engage a person to enlist as a soldier in the service of a foreign state". The assistant secretary's letter requests, on behalf of the Governor General [Sir Charles Stanley Monck], Mondelet's opinion on the Montreal petition for a reduction or commutation of Mathurin's death sentence. In is reply, Mondelet states that, having read the petition and reviewed the testimony given at the trial, he can see nothing that could excuse or mitigate the actions of the accused, and leaves the responsibility for the decision to lessen the sentence entirely in the hands of the Executive Government.…