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Jail journal, or,
Five years in British prisons [facsim. of ed. published in Glasgow :
Cameron & Ferguson, 1876] / John Mitchel ; introd. by John Kelly . - Otley (West Yorkshire) :
Woodstock books, 1996. - VIII-320 p. ; 21 cm. - (Hibernia).
ISBN 1-85477-218-X
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NOTE DE L'ÉDITEUR
: John Mitchel (1815-75) took a degree in law at Trinity College,
Dublin, and worked in a solicitor's office in Co. Down where he came
into conflict with the Orange Order. He sympathised with the Young
Irelanders and moved to Dublin in 1845 to become a chief contributor to
The Nation. Always a radical,
he grew more extreme in his views after the onset of the Famine and
under the influence of Fintan Lalor, breaking with his moderate
colleagues in 1847 to found The United Irishman.
His articles for this were so outspoken that he was tried on charges of
sedition in 1848 and transported to Australia. In 1853 he escaped to
the USA, where he became a farmer in Tennessee, supported the
Confederacy in the Civil War, and denounced the Fenians. He returned to
Ireland in 1874 and was elected MP for North Tipperary, but unseated as
an undischarged felon. He died during a second election in which he was
again successful.
| THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO
LITERATURE IN ENGLISH ✳ :
Mitchel, John (1815-75). Irish patriot writer. […] In 1842
he met Thomas Davis, joined O'Connell's Repeal Association in
1843, and by 1845 was writing for the Young Ireland paper The
Nation. More republican and anti-British than his associates,
he founded his own more extreme paper, The United Irishman,
in 1848. Soon afterwards he was arrested and convicted of treason.
Sentenced to transportation, he was taken to Bermuda, South Africa
and, finally, Tasmania, whence he escaped to the USA in 1853.
All these experiences were recorded in his most famous work,
the Jail Journal (1854), which registers his quarrel not
merely with British policy but with the economic triumphalism,
as he saw it, of British civilization.
[…]
| ✳ | London : Guild Publishing, 1988 — p. 671. |
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| COMPLÉMENT BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE | - « Jail journal, or,
Five years in British prisons », New York : The Citizen, 1854
- « Jail journal, or,
Five years in British prisons », Glasgow : Cameron
& Ferguson, 1876
| - « The gardens of
hell : John Mitchel in Van Diemen's land 1850-1853 »
ed. by Peter O'Shaughnessy, Kenthurst : Kangaroo press,
1988
| | Extracts from Jail journal by John Mitchel |
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