Identifier: historyofireland1884have (find matches)
Title: The history of Ireland : from the earliest period to the present time; derived from native annals, and from the researches of Dr. O'Donovan, Eugene Curry, C. P. Meehan, R. R. Madden, and other eminent scholars, and from all the resources of Irish history now available
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Haverty, Martin, 1809-1887
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Publisher: New York : Thomas Kelly
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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treatment of these politi- cal prisoners was nothing short of barbarous, numbers of them being drivento insanity or death by the slow tortureto which they were subjected. Evenunder the pressure of remonstrancesfrom humane men and women in everycivilized nation, amnesty was tardilyand ungraciously extended by de-grees to the civilian prisoners; whileevery appeal in behalf of the incar-cerated soldiers—ex-members of theBritish army—was flatly and curtlyrepulsed. Of the latter, ghastly ex-amples must be made, to deter herMajestys troops from disloyalty in thefuture. The warning lost its force,however, when half a dozen of theseoffenders were carried off from Aus-tralia, in 1876, under the direction ofJ. J. Breslin, in the American brigCatalpa which was chartered for thepurpose by Irish-American sympathi-zers. Apprehending similar rescues athome, the British Government there-upon abruptly fell into a merciful moodand began to make arrangements forthe release of the remaining prisoners
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