Chapter I: Front Matter

ROSSA’S RECOLLECTIONS.

1838 TO 1898.

CHILDHOOD, BOYHOOD, MANHOOD.

Customs, Habits and Manners of the Irish People.

ERINACH AND SASSENACH--CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT--ENGLISHMAN
AND IRISHMAN--ENGLISH
RELIGION--IRISH PLUNDER.

SOCIAL LIFE AND PRISON LIFE.

The Fenian Movement. Travels in Ireland, England,
Scotland and America.

By O’DONOVAN ROSSA

O’DONOVAN ROSSA,
MARINER’S HARBOR, N. Y.
1898.

COPYRIGHT
1898
O’DONOVAN ROSSA

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Cradle and the Weaning 5

II. At my Grandfather’s 10

III. My Schooldays 22

IV. Irish Fireside Story and History 35

V. The Emigrant Parting.--Carthy Spauniach 51

VI. The Gladstone Blackbird.--Many Features of Irish Life 61

VII. The Lords of Ireland 71

VIII. A Chapter on Genealogy 80

IX. “Repeal of the Union” 101

X. How England Starved Ireland 108

XI. The Bad Times: The “Good People.” Jillen Andy: Her
Coffinless Grave 119

XII. 1847 and 1848 130

XIII. The Scattering of My Family.--The Phœnix Society 141

XIV. Love and War and Marriage 151

XV. Doctor Jerrie Crowley, Doctor Anthony O’Ryan, Charles
Kickham, The Phœnix Society 177

XVI. The Start of Fenianism 199

XVII. Arrest of the Phœnix Men 206

XVIII. A Star-Chamber Trial 216

XIX. The McManus Funeral--James Stephens and John O’Mahony
visit Skibbereen--Fenianism Growing Strong 234

XX. The Struggle against the Enemy 251

XXI. James Stephens and John O’Mahony 269

XXII. A Letter of much Import, Written by James Stephens,
in the Year 1861 282

XXIII. John O’Mahony, Wm. Sullivan, Florry Roger O’Sullivan,
Brian Dillon, Jack Dillon, Michael O’Brien, C. U.
O’Connell, James Mountaine, and others. 300

XXIV. Administering Relief to Poor People.--A Fight with
the Landlords. 320

XXV. John O’Donovan, LL. D., Editor of the Annals of the
Four Masters. 332

XXVI. My first Visit to America.--My Mother, John O’Mahony,
Thomas Francis Meagher, Robert E. Kelly, and his Son
Horace R. Kelly, Michael Corcoran, P. J. Downing, P. J.
Condon, William O’Shea, and Michael O’Brien the
Manchester Martyr. 378

XXVII. Great-Grandfather Thomas Crimmins.--His Recollections
of the Men of ’98, and other Men. 391

ROSSA’S RECOLLECTIONS.

Sixty Years of an Irishman’s Life.