TFM to Doheny: Lyons, as above.
SOB to Anne Martineau: O’Brien Papers, MS 443, NLI.
Costs of trial: As for previous note.
Life led by prisoners: CGD, as above.
Mitchel in Bermuda, and subsequent Mitchel experiences unless otherwise noted: Mitchel, Jail Journal, as above.
SOB’s Christmas invitation to Lady O’Brien: O’Brien Papers, MS 443, NLI.
O’Brien women find TFM amusing: O’Brien, Grania, as above.
Creation of trust arrangement for Cahirmoyle: As for previous note.
The bounty of the Australian table: Harris, Russell Ward, as above.
Letter of Robert to SOB: O’Brien Papers, MS 443, NLI.
Onset of cholera: MacArthur in Edwards and Williams, as above; Geary, Lawrence M., ‘Famine, Fever, and the Bloody Flux,’ in Póirtéir, Famine Echoes, as above.
East Galway, wearing apparel: BPP, Volume XLVIII, 1849.
Cremation of Garveys: O Gráda, ‘The Great Famine,’ as above.
Shrinkage of houses and population, East Galway: Report of Census Commissioners, 1851, as above.
Later movements of Esther Larkin: Oral record.
TFM’s invitation to O’Farrell: Michael O’Farrell Papers, 5 May 1849, MS 9786, Trinity College Library, Dublin.
Mitchel in Bermuda: Mitchel, Jail Journal, as above.
Struggle of SOB and lawyers against transportation, meeting with Lady O’Brien, etc.: SOB to O’Farrell, 20 June 1849, Michael O’Farrell Papers, MS 9786, as above.
TFM’s beliefs on monarchy and republic: Gavan Duffy manuscript collection, MS 12, document headed ‘Meagher’s Politics,’ Royal Irish Academy.
Transportation of O’Doherty and Martin: Patrick and Patrick, as above.
MacManus to O’Farrell: O’Farrell Papers, 18 June 1849, MS 9786, as above.
O’Doherty and Martin nicknames: Kiernan, as above.
Grey’s assurance to Sir Lucius: Touhill, Blanche M., William Smith O’Brien and His Revolutionary Friends in Penal Exile, Columbia, MO, 1981.
SOB poem: O’Brien Papers, MS 443, NLI.
TFM’s shopping list before transportation: TFM’s invoices, June 1849, MS 7410, NLI.
Transporting YI across the city and aboard ship: Quoted from Freeman’s Journal, TL, 11 July 1949.
SOB’s exhilaration at being on the water and all other unnoted references to do with transportation: SOB, Journal, Part 1, as above.
O’Farrell goes to harbour and boards Swift: O’Farrell Papers, MS 9786, as above.
SOB’s version of Swift and its voyage: SOB, Journal, as above.
TFM’s version: N, 27 July 1850.
SOB’s accommodation: O’Brien to family, MS 443, NLI.
O’Donohoe’s experience on Swift: N, 15 December 1850.
Readings on board: O’Donohoe, N, as for previous note; TFM, N, 27 July 1850; SOB, Journal, as above.
O’Donohoe to his wife: Nation (New York), 26 January 1850.
SOB’s Sergeant Perry verse, and most subsequent SOB verses: SOB, Journal, as above.
O’Doherty and Martin arrive Sydney: Patrick and Patrick, as above.
Meagher’s impressions of Hobart: Nation (New York), 25 May 1850.
Courier’s advice to State prisoners: Hobart Town Courier, 31 October 1849.
Details of conditions of ticket-of-leave, and subsequent SOB treatment, unless otherwise noted: SOB, Journal, as above; Denison, Sir William, as above.
TFM, Nairn, and later descriptions of VDL: Nation (New York), 25 May 1850.
Lt Governor’s choice of Maria Island for SOB: MS 443/1, NLI, copied to NS553/1, TSA.
Eva’s poem ‘Ever, Ever’: N, 17 November 1849.
Meagher on the VDL countryside, and experiences in Campbell Town: Nation (New York), as above.
Movements of O’Doherty, Martin, MacManus: Standard YI sources, including Touhill, as above; Cullen, Rev. J. H., Young Ireland in Exile, Dublin and Cork, 1928.
Dr John Stephen Hampton: Standard YI sources and ADB, Volume 1, pp. 508–9.
O’Donohoe’s VDL career: Davis, Richard, ‘Patrick O’Donohoe, Outcast of the Exiles,’ in Reece, Bob (ed.), Exiles from Erin, Dublin, 1991.
SOB on Maria Island, all aspects: SOB, Journal, as above.
13 BY ORDER OF GREAT DENISON
Chapter heading: SOB to TFM, 23 November 1849; O’Brien Papers, MSS 443, 444, NLI.
SOB’s correspondence on Maria: SOB, Journal, as above; and MS 443, 444, NLI.
SOB on his situation, Maria Island: SOB, Journal, as above.
SOB to Sir Lucius: 15 December 1849, O’Brien Papers, MS 443, NLI.
SOB poem to TFM: 11 January 1850, O’Brien Papers, MS 444, NLI.
SOB to Robert O’Brien: 1 January 1850, O’Brien Papers, MS 443, NLI.
SOB orders rice and curry, Carter’s reply, mock-heroic verse: SOB to TFM, 23 November, 1849, O’Brien Papers, MS 443, NLI.
‘6/7 week of my solitary confinement’: for example, SOB to O’Doherty, 27 December 1849, O’Brien Papers, MS 443, NLI.
TFM to SOB about delightful solitude: 12 December 1849, O’Brien Papers, MS 443, NLI.
Dr Dawson reports meeting SOB: Denison, Sir William, as above.
O’Donohoe: Kiernan, Curren, as above: Davis, Richard, ‘Outcast,’ in Reece, Exiles from Erin, as above.
O’Donohoe to his wife, Anne: N, 27 April 1850.
O’Donohoe’s picnic adventure: Martin to O’Doherty letters, and vice versa, unless otherwise noted, MS 10,522, NLI; Kiernan, as above.
O’Donohoe’s first edition: Irish Exile, 26 January 1850.
O’Donohoe on colonial Pharisees: Irish Exile, 9 March 1850.
The McDonnell case, and gold: Irish Exile, 16 February 1850.
Impact of Californian gold rush on VDL: Irish Exile, 23 February 1850.
Limerick support for SOB: Irish Exile, 9 March 1850.
SOB to Edward, partly in Latin: December 1849, O’Brien Papers, MS 444, NLI.
Lady O’Brien to SOB: 1 May 1850, O’Brien Papers, MS 444, NLI.
SOB to Rev. Gabbett: 7 March 1850, O’Brien Papers, MS 443, NLI.
Lucy senior to SOB: 7 May 1850, O’Brien Papers, MS 444, NLI.
Lucy junior to SOB: 17 October 1849, MS 443, NLI.
SOB to Grace: September 1850, O’Brien Papers, MS 444, NLI.
Mitchel in VDL: Kiernan, Cullen, as above; Mitchel, Jail Journal, as above.
TFM’s experiences: TFM to SOB, 21 February 1850, O’Brien Papers, MS 443, NLI; Kiernan, Cullen, as above.
TFM and O’Doherty dine on Blackman bridge: TFM, Meagher of the Sword, as above.
The Speranza: Mitchel, Jail Journal, as above.
Martin to O’Doherty: Kiernan, as above.
‘Yes, pale one …’: Eva, N, 15 September 1849.
Gregson’s ‘Case for Opinion’: 19 February 1850, O’Brien Papers, MS 443, NLI.
Anstey to SOB: 14 April 1850, O’Brien Papers, MS 444, NLI.
Martin to SOB about Lake Sorell meeting: 23 December 1849, O’Brien Papers, MS 443, NLI.
TFM on remonstrance to Denison: N, 3 August 1850.
Mitchel riding: Mitchel, Jail Journal, as above.
Reids of Ratho: Brown, P. L., Clyde Company Papers, Volume 6, Oxford, 1968.
Martin to the Connells: Cullen, as above.
Attack on O’Donohoe: Sydney Morning Herald, 2 April 1850.
YI rallies to O’Donohoe: Irish Exile, 13 and 20 April 1850.
Cork Examiner and Sligo Champion on SOB situation: both quoted, N, 22 June 1850.
Sympathy meeting, New York: N, 15 October 1850.
SOB to Lucy junior: 25 January 1850, O’Brien Papers, MS 444, NLI.
SOB to Lucy senior: 4 July 1850, O’Brien Papers, MS 444, NLI.
Evidence of Smart and convict constables on SOB and Susan Lapham, and all correspondence: MM62/29, Volumes A1131/2, Comptroller-General’s correspondence, ML; SOB, Journal, as above.
‘Moneyed’ Clarke: ADB, Volume I.
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bsp; O’Doherty and the Medical Board: Patrick and Patrick, Kiernan, as above; O’Doherty to SOB, 27 May 1850, O’Brien Papers, MS 444, NLI.
O’Doherty’s interpretation of Medical Board’s request: Kiernan, as above.
O’Doherty resigning ticket-of-leave: Patrick and Patrick, as above.
‘Come, wild deer of the mountainside!’: N, 15 June 1850
Contact between TFM and McCarthy: TFM to SOB, 9 October 1852, O’Brien Papers, MS 445, NLI.
SOB’s experience of escape attempt: SOB, Journal, as above.
Denison and Lady Denison on SOB’s escape attempt: Denison, Sir William, as above.
14 YOUNG IRELAND AND THE PROFANE COLONISTS
Chapter heading: O’Donohoe to TFM; N, 5 July 1851.
SOB to Anne Martineau: Sixteen letters from SOB to Martineau, Miscellaneous Collections, MS 18301, NLI.
SOB writes to Nixon: SOB, Journal, as above; 11 September 1850, O’Brien Papers, MS 444, NLI.
Denison reacts to offer, and all subsequent Denison unless otherwise noted: Denison, Sir William, as above.
SOB appeals to Sir Lucius over Lapham: 2 October 1850, O’Brien Papers, MS 444, NLI.
Nairn to SOB: 2 October 1850, O’Brien Papers, MS 444, NLI.
MacManus to SOB: 4 November 1850, O’Brien Papers, MS 444, NLI.
O’Donohoe warns of Baron de Bhere: Irish Exile, 2 November 1850.
SOB informs Lucy: 14 November 1850, O’Brien Papers, MS 8653, NLI.
Human railway and ring-bolting: Hughes, as above; SOB, Journal, as above.
SOB to Lucy on Derwent settlers: 25 December 1850, MS 8653, NLI.
MacManus relates visiting SOB: N, 10 May 1851.
TFM relates visiting SOB: N, 5 July 1851.
O’Donohoe visit: Touhill, as above; Davis, Richard, ‘Outcast,’ in Reece, Exiles from Erin, as above.
Sympathetic Courier: Hobart Town Courier, 4 January 1851.
TFM asks SOB whether he should surrender parole: Christmas Day 1850, MS 444, NLI.
Career of Brian Bennett, and his VDL property: Cullen, as above.
Earlier policy of no Irish convicts in VDL: Robson, as above.
SOB visits Bennetts: SOB, Journal, as above.
MacManus writes from Hobart convict depot to TFM, and from Cascades: Cullen, as above.
O’Donohoe at Port Arthur and Salt Water River: Davis, Richard, ‘Outcast,’ in Reece, Exiles from Erin, as above; N, 8 November 1851.
O’Donohoe’s work in Port Arthur: Hobart Town Guardian, 2 April 1851, quoted in Davis, Richard, ‘Outcast,’ in Reece, Exiles from Erin, as above.
MacManus on his Cascades experience: MacManus to SOB, 29 January 1851, O’Brien Papers, MS 444, NLI.
Martin to O’Doherty on TFM’s courtship: Kiernan, as above.
TFM’s rationale for marriage: Kiernan, as above.
Meagher senior foots attempted escape bill: Touhill, as above; Mitchel to SOB, 26 June 1851, O’Brien Papers, MS 444, NLI.
SOB sees TFM and Catherine, goes on to work in Avoca, and subsequent SOB unless noted: SOB, Journal, as above.
Lady Denison and the MacManus case: Denison, Sir William, as above.
TFM’s wedding invitation to MacManus: Undated, Meagher Papers, MS 3900/1, NLI.
MacManus escape: SOB, Journal, as above; Touhill, as above.
The Exile appeals for payment of debts: Irish Exile, 22 February 1851.
O’Donohoe’s financial position after his imprisonment: Touhill, Cullen; Davis, Richard, ‘Outcast,’ in Reece, Exiles from Erin, as above.
O’Doherty to Martin on severity of Impression Bay: Patrick and Patrick, as above.
Martin asks O’Doherty why he gave up dispensary: Kiernan, as above.
Mitche’s reunion—his movements: Mitchel, Jail Journal, as above.
Jenny to Miss Thompson: 21 July 1851, 11 September 1851, Mrs Jane Mitchel’s Letters to Miss Mary Thompson, Manuscripts and Archives, NYPL.
Gold discoveries, Australia: Clark, C. M. H., A History of Australia, Volume 4, 1978.
MacManus in San Francisco: Bisceglia, Louis R., ‘The MacManus Welcome, San Francisco, 1851,’ Eire-Ireland, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1981.
Widespread news of the MacManus escape: Bisceglia, ‘The MacManus Welcome,’ as above.
Monteagle emigrants in Goulburn area: O’Mahony and Thompson, as above.
Deniehy and Goulburn Herald: ADB, Volume 3; Pearl, Deniehy, as above, quoted.
John and Jenny’s excursion to meet SOB et al.: Mitchel, Jail Journal, as above; Mrs Jane Mitchel to Miss Mary Thompson, 6 December 1851, Manuscripts and Archives, NYPL.
Balfe: Petrow, in Davis, Irish-Australian Studies, as above.
Jenny writes of Mrs Meagher, and other things: Mrs Jane Mitchel to Miss Mary Thompson, 6 December 1851, Manuscripts and Archives, NYPL.
A witness writes of TFM’s escape: Adam-Smith, as above.
A further witness defends TFM’s escape: NYT, 16 January 1857.
Jenny Mitchel on TFM’s escape: Mrs Jane Mitchel to Miss Mary Thompson, 25 February 1852, Manuscripts and Archives, NYPL.
TFM’s conflict with the Halls, and his vile entanglements: Martin to O’Doherty, 13 August 1851, Hickey Papers, MS 3226, NLI.
Concern about TFM’s escape: Martin to O’Doherty, 11 January 1852, John Martin Papers, MS 10,522, NLI.
Martin investigates O’Meagher’s mode of escape: 18 January 1852, John Martin Papers, MS 10,522, NLI.
Mitchel asks SOB if they should appeal to TFM to return: Mitchel to SOB, 19 January 1852, MS 444, NLI.
TFM’s account of escape: TFM, ‘Six Weeks in the South Pacific,’ Irish News, 9 and 14 April, 21 May 1859.
Kate Meagher to friend: Cullen, as above.
15 LOCKED WITHIN THE PYRAMID
Senator Foote’s motion on State prisoners: Congressional Globe, 32nd Congress, Session One, Volume 21, Part I, quoted in Athearn, as above.
Activities of Fillmore and others on State prisoners’ behalf: Athearn, Touhill, as above.
Pilot reports TFM’s escape: Pilot, Boston, 15 May 1852.
Details of TFM’s welcome and American career: Athearn, Cavanagh, Lyons, as above, unless otherwise noted.
TFM’s first full day in New York: Irish American, 6 June 1852.
TFM’s speech and demeanour: New York Herald, 29 May 1852.
More praise for TFM: NYT, 31 May 1852.
Irish in New York: Bayor and Meagher, as above.
Irish, population level 1850s, illicit naturalisation, saloon politics: Roberts, Edward S., Ireland in America, New York, 1931; Potter, George, To the Golden Door, Boston, 1960; Levine, Edward, The Irish and Irish Politicians, Notre Dame, IN, 1966.
McGee’s American career: Skelton, Isabel, The Life of Thomas D’Arcy McGee, New York, 1925.
SOB visits Bennetts: Catherine Meagher to TFM, Cullen, as above.
Death of TFM’s child: Cullen, Athearn, as above; Mrs Jenny Mitchel to Miss Mary Thompson, 12 July 1852, Manuscripts and Archives, NYPL.
TFM, received at Astor House, rejects further receptions: NYT, 9 June 1852.
TFM at Irish military event, the Battery: NYT, 28 July 1852.
TFM’s speech at military event: New York Tribune, 28 July 1852.
The Metropolitan: McKay, Ernest A., The Civil War and New York City, Syracuse, 1990.
Herald’s boast: New York Herald, 5 November 1852.
TFM’s first New York lecture: NYT, 26 November 1852.
TFM’s profit from speech: Irish American, 4 December 1852.
TFM lectures upstate: Albany Atlas, quoted in Irish American, 11 December 1852.
TFM and St Louis toast to Australian republic: NYT, 15 January 1853.
TFM’s admission to SOB: Ahearn, as above.
SOB sees dilemma in accepting pardon: SOB to Lucy, 2 May 1852, MS 8653, NLI.
Rev. Henry O’Brien’s Memorial not fully subscribed: Henry O’Brien to SOB, 26 May 1852, O’Brien Papers, MS 444, NLI.
SOB anxious over Lapham: SOB to Lucy, 19 February 185
3, O’Brien Papers, MS 8653, NLI.
SOB upbraids Lucy: SOB, Journal, as above.
O’Donohoe’s exposé on Port Arthur: Davis, Richard, ‘Outcast,’ in Reece, Exiles from Erin, as above.
The treadmill: Hughes, as above.
Balfe’s career: Petrow, in Davis, Richard, Irish-Australian Studies, as above.
O’Donohoe attacks Balfe: Launceston Examiner, 14 August 1852.
O’Donohoe attempts escape on YY: N, 9 July 1853.
O’Donohoe in Melbourne and final escape: N, 9 July 1853; Touhill, Cullen, as above.
O’Shanassy: Pearl, CGD, as above; ADB, Volume 5.
Abolition of transportation, last ship, Home Office to Denison: Denison, Bateson, Shaw, Hirst, as above.
O’Donohoe’s sad American career: Athearn, as above; Davis, Richard, ‘Outcast,’ in Reece, Exile from Erin, as above.
Pat Smyth in VDL: Mitchel, Jail Journal, as above.
Mitchel’s attitude to child born in VDL: Mrs Jane Mitchel to Miss Mary Thompson, 31 January 1853, Manuscripts and Archives, NYPL.
TFM meets Pierce and has Washington success: Irish American, 10 March 1853.
Career of General Cass: Dictionary of American Biography.
New York speech condemning Irish clergy: NYT, 26 May 1853.
Mrs Meagher reaches London: N, 4 June 1853; arrives in Waterford: N, 9 July 1853.
Mitchel escape: Mitchel, Jail Journal, as above, P. J. Smyth in N, 24 October 1884.
16 THE SKELETON AT THE FEAST
Chapter heading: NYT, 20 December 1853.
Martin on Mitchel’s escape: Martin to O’Doherty, 29 April 1854, in Kiernan, as above.
SOB’s Tasmanian constitution: SOB, Journal, as above, Appendix 1.
Edward wants to attend English university: Edward to SOB, 6 November 1853, O’Brien Papers, MS 8656, NLI.
SOB’s reaction: SOB to Lucy, 17 April 1854, O’Brien Papers, MS 8653, NLI.
Charles Murrough to SOB: O’Brien Papers, undated, MS 8656, NLI.
The Mitchels in San Francisco: Mitchel, Jail Journal, as above; Kiernan, Touhill, as above.
Jenny tempted to remain in San Francisco: Mrs Jane Mitchel to Miss Mary Thompson, 14 December 1853, Manuscripts and Archives, NYPL.
R. K. Nuttall to Mrs Williams: 15 November 1853, Brown, Clyde Company, Volume 6.
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