Doonan records Fauntleroy conversation: Superintendent Fremantle Prison, AN35B, ACC 1156/35AC, enclosed in Governor’s Correspondence, No. 264, 26/6/1869–27/8/1886, 92 WAA.
King meets McCarthy: King’s account, Gaelic American, 8–22 October 1904.
Breslin visits Bunbury: Sub-Inspector Wisby to Hare, WA Police Department, AN5/6, ACC 129, Item 23/164, enclosed as for note above, 92 WAA.
All telegrams, Breslin/Anthony: Copy made 18 April 1876, Escape of Fenians in American Whaler, File AN5/6, ACC 129, Item 23/164, enclosed as for previous note, 92 WAA.
30 PERTH REGATTA DAY
Chapter heading: Ballad from Ward, Russel, Three Street Ballads, Russel Ward, Fentree Gully, Victoria, 1957.
Keilley: Roche, as above; General account of the rescue, Gaelic American, 16 July 1904; Personal and Other Descriptions of 280 Convicts received per ship ‘Hougoumont’ on the 10th January, 1868, Acct. 1156 V 10, Convict Establishment, Convict Department No. 40, Comptroller-General’s Office, Miscellaneous Volume, WAA.
Movements of Fenian convicts on morning of escape: Western Australian Police Records, Report by Doonan and others, AN5/6, ACC 129, Item 23/164, 92 WAA.
Between cemetery and piggery: Perth Inquirer, 21 April 1976.
Breslin verse: Anon., Rescue of Military Fenians, as above.
All steps taken to pursue escapers: Report by Doonan and others, and Governor’s Despatch to Secretary of State, 19 April 1876, 1/1/74–7/8/77, Item 13, WAS 1166, WAA.
Mr Tondut’s regatta success: Western Australian Times, 21 April 1876.
Further movements and operations in response to escapes: Western Australian Times, 21 April 1876; Fremantle Herald, 22 April 1876.
Lord Stowell, quoted in Governor’s Despatch, as above.
Irish letter from Fremantle: Munster News, reprinted in the Irishman, 15 July 1876.
Robinson’s telegraph: 15 May 1876, Governor’s Letterbook, 27/7/1872–14/12/1876, Item 4, WAS 1232, WAA.
Sam Smith’s answer to Stone: Fremantle Herald, 21 April 1876.
Robinson’s report: Governor’s Despatches to Secretary of State, 19 April and 15 May 1876, 1/1/74–7/8/77, Item 13, WAS 1166, PRO, WAA.
Reasons HM’s government could ask the American government to take actions: As for previous note.
Governor would not have sent Georgette out again: As for previous note.
Final exchange, Catalpa and Georgette: Fremantle Herald, 22 April 1876.
Keilley’s destiny: Amos, as above.
Remainder of Catalpa journey: Various accounts, Gaelic American, 1904; Anon., Rescue of Military Fenians, as above; Pease, O Lúing, as above.
McAuliffe on behaviour of McCarthy: 12 May 1876, enclosed in Governor’s Correspondence, No. 350, 392, WAA.
Rowe, McCarthy, Walsh: Amos, as above.
Invincibles: Kee, Bold Fenian Men, Neidhardt, Amos, as above.
Rowe on Tondut: Amos, as above.
Doonan condemns Lindsey and Booler: Doonan to Fauntleroy, 27 April 1876, G10/605, WAA.
Enquiry recommends removal of Lindsey: 13 May 1876, Governor’s Correspondence, No. 350, 392, WAA.
Warder Lindsey puts up fight: Lindsey’s Memorial to His Excellency, 22 May 1876, M12143/12, WAA.
Fauntleroy sacked: Home Office to Governor, 13 August 1877, Home Office Despatches, No. 377, WAA.
Robinson’s behaviour approved by Home Office: Colonial Office from Home Office, 14 December 1876, No. 100, copied by Australian Joint Copying Project to WAA.
Little credit to Disraeli: O Lúing, as above.
Problems on Catalpa: Breslin’s report in Clan na Gael, Report of the Eighth Annual Convention, Cleveland, Ohio, September 4, 1877, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.
The escapees at Rossa’s hotel: Irish World, 25 July 1876.
Kenealy’s store: Workman, Boyle, The City That Grew, 1840–1936, Los Angeles, 1936; Newmark, Harris, Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853–1913, New York, 1926.
American jubilation at escape: Amos, as above.
O’Reilly praises Anthony: Irishman, 16 September 1876.
Calculating rewards for Anthony and crew: Devoy, Recollections, as above; O Lúing, as above.
Request to New Bedford police: 18 April 1876, AN 5/6, ACC 129, Item 23/164, enclosed as for earlier note, 92 WAA.
Fate of Catalpa: O Lúing, as above.
American careers of escapers: Devoy, Post Bag, Volume 2, as above; O Lúing, Amos, as above.
Breslin’s later career: D’Arcy, O Lúing, as above; Devoy, Post Bag, Volume 2, as above.
Holland submarine: Devoy, Post Bag, Volume 2, as above; http/www.subnet.com.
Devoy’s later life: Devoy, Recollections, as above; Golway, as above.
Devoy’s death: TL, 1 October 1928.
Life of Anthony and Mrs Anthony: O Lúing, as above.
31 REPUBLICAN CHRIST
Davitt’s life and Land League: Kee, Bold Fenian Men and Laurel and Ivy, Davitt, as above.
McCarthy and Chambers, letters: Roche, as above.
JBOR attacked in Atlantic Monthly: Atlantic Monthly, January 1880.
Parnell’s oratory, arrest, downfall: Kee, Laurel and Ivy, as above; Lyons, F. S., Abels, Callaghan, as above.
New Departure: Golway, as above.
The catastrophe in Ireland, and Mayo Land League meetings: Jordan, Donald E., Jr, as above.
O’Reilly in relation to Davitt, Land League and Parnell: Roche, McManamin, Schofield, as above.
Phillips to JBOR concerning Parnell: 18 June 1880, MSS Acc 623, Special Collections, BPL.
JBOR applauds Land League: Pilot, 15 November 1879.
Land Act: Kee, Laurel and Ivy, as above; Lyons, as above.
Parnell’s boycott speech: As for previous note.
Nicaragua Smyth and difficulties as landlord: Smyth Papers, 28 November 1881, 11 June 1882, and elsewhere, MS 8216, NLI.
JBOR denounces treatment of Parnell: Pilot, 3 December 1881.
Katherine O’Shea: Callaghan, and usual Parnell sources, as above.
No Rent Manifesto: Usual Parnell sources, as above.
Phoenix Park murders: As for previous note.
JBOR’s reaction: Roche, Schofield, McManamin, as above.
Oscar Wilde’s American tour: Roche, Ellmann, as above.
JBOR takes on Dismal Swamp with Ned Moseley: O’Reilly Papers, 26 November 1888, MSS ACC 2537, Department of Rare Books, BPL.
JBOR’s irregular lines praised: Atlantic Monthly, June 1882.
The King’s Men: O’Reilly, John Boyle (co-author), The King’s Men, with Robert Grant, Frederic Stimson, John T. Wheelwright, New York, 1884.
Holmes praises In Bohemia: Roche, as above.
O’Dohertys in later life: Patrick and Patrick, as above.
Courier attacks Irish National Convention: Brisbane Courier, 6 November 1883.
Courier remarks O’Doherty ‘starring it’: Brisbane Courier, 22 October 1885.
Courier attacks O’Doherty for accepting Irish seat: Brisbane Courier, 7 December 1885.
O’Doherty repelled by Parnell: Brown, Spencer, Journalist’s Memories, Brisbane, n.d.
Eva says O’Doherty resigned from Commons for financial reasons: O’Doherty Papers, OM71–6, Envelope 4, John Oxley Library, Brisbane.
Croydon gold-field: Maurie, Arthur, ‘History of the Croydon Goldfield,’ Historical Society of Queensland, Vol. 4, No. 4, December 1951.
JBOR attacks Home Rule Bill: Boston Pilot, 15 May 1886.
JBOR’s first expression of belief in workers’ co-operatives: Pilot, 10 May 1873.
Paternalism vs Monopoly: Pilot, 1 September 1883.
JBOR on America’s indigenes: Roche, Schofield, as above.
JBOR and Harcourt: Usual JBOR sources, as above.
JBOR on Rossa wounding: As for previous note.
Americanism vs Irishism, and Queen Victoria Jubilee: Roche, as above.
JBOR’s Irish defensiveness: McManamin, as above.
JBOR’s recor
d in backing politicians: Roche, as above.
JBOR dutifully backs Cleveland: Pilot, 19 July 1884.
Irish Americans and Democrats: Roche, as above.
JBOR exhausted: JBOR to Frances Bowen, 13 June 1887, O’Reilly Papers, MS AM 1662, Special Collections, BPL.
JBOR overworked: JBOR to Mr Burren, 24 January 1888, as for previous note.
JBOR as patron: JBOR to Governor Ames, 2 June 1887, Merle Johnson Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, NYPL.
Last lecture tour: Roche, Schofield, McManamin, as above.
Death and mourning: Roche, Evans, as above.
Chance of prescription error: Evans, as above.
Devoy on Kenealy: Devoy, Post Bag, Volume 2, as above.
Kenealy in Los Angeles: Workman, as above: obituary, Los Angeles Times, 10 September 1908.
People’s Store: Workman, Newmark, as above.
Kenealy a member of Clan na Gael Council: 25 October 1882, Foreign Office Correspondence, FO5, PRO 5779, copied by Australian Joint Copying Project to ML.
Land defiance, North Cork: Donnelly, Land and People, as above.
Political practice in Los Angeles: Stinson, Marshall, Fun, Fight, and Fiestas in Old Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 1966.
Kenealy’s later Los Angeles career: City of Los Angeles Auditor’s Report, 1903, Los Angeles, 1904.
James F. Kenealy’s career, and the water impasse: Workman, as above; Caughey, John and Caughey, LaRee, Los Angeles: Biography of a City, Los Angeles, 1977; Davis, Margaret Leslie, Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles, New York, 1993.
Kenealy’s death, and In The Sultan’s Power: Spalding, William A., History and Reminiscences, Los Angeles, City and County, California, Volume 1, Los Angeles, n.d.
Kenealy obituary: Los Angeles Times, 10 September 1908.
O’Dohertys—final years: Patrick and Patrick, as above.
O’Doherty’s obituary: Brisbane Courier, 28 July 1905.
‘Genial medico’: Bernays, C. A., Queensland Politics During Sixty Years (1858–1919), Brisbane, n.d.
Eva tells Hickey it was losing game for O’Doherty to join Parnell: O’Doherty Papers, Eva O’Doherty to Father Hickey, February 1906, OM71–6, Envelope 4, John Oxley Library, Brisbane.
Soror poetica letter: Hickey to Eva, as for previous note.
Hickey congratulates Eva: O’Doherty Papers, 14 March 1909, OM71–6, Envelope 4, John Oxley Library, Brisbane.
Eva’s notes on the people of 1848: O’Doherty Papers, OM71–6, Envelope 5, John Oxley Library, Brisbane.
Poems inadequately advertised in Australia: Eva to Father Hickey, 12 November 1909, as for previous note.
Irish attitudes to the war: ‘An Irish Airman Foresees his Death,’ in Yeats, W. B., The Wild Swans at Coole, London, 1919.
Pearse’s speech for Rossa: Kee, Bold Fenian Men, as above.
Developments leading to 1916, and following it: Kee, Bold Fenian Men, as above; Foster, Modern Ireland, as above.
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