One fine March day in 1868, gunshots rang out at a society charity event in Sydney's harbourside suburb of Clontarf. In the aftermath, Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh - son of Queen Victoria - lay close to death, while the assembled crowd seized and beat his attacker, Irish-born Henry James O'Farrell. Who was this character who began the day a complete unknown and ended it as the young colony's most hated man?
A Man of Honour is a richly textured, lyrical reimagining of O'Farrell's life, before and after the would-be assassination. Simon Smith paints a portrait of a very modern anti-hero: a man whose love for his family, his God, his birth country and his Fenian brotherhood is strong, but whose life is ultimately skewed by illness and by the cruelty of some of those closest to him. Drawing on contemporary newspaper accounts and on O'Farrell's actual words as revealed in gaol-cell interviews, court transcripts and his own writings, Smith asks: What makes a charming, sensitive and erudite man want to arm himself and shoot the son of the world's most powerful ruler? Is he a terrorist, a patriot, a hero?
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- Cover
- Title page
- Dedication
- The Breastplate
- The Matter of the Truth: A Note from Author to Reader
- Prologue: The Seed Is Sown
- The Adventure Begins
- Lèse-majesté
- Room Three
- In His Sights
- The Knowing
- A Sister’s Concern, a Brother’s Love
- Voyaging Away
- His Grace Comes
- On the High Seas
- Home
- Nativity
- In My Cell
- The Other Henry
- After the Deed, and Before
- The Probing Begins
- Shock and Indignation
- The Powers That Be
- The First Meeting
- Family Ties
- Style and Intent
- The Words
- The Words Shew the Way
- Nothing More to Say
- Irish Men, United
- The Luck of the Draw
- Preparing for the Battle
- A Bit of Banter
- Catching the Mail
- To Veil or to Reveal?
- The Trial
- In the Dock
- In the Stand
- Choosing the Words
- The Mark of Lunacy
- Lex Talionis
- Heartfelt
- What Is Right
- The Union (Hand, Mouth, Deed and Life)
- The Thing That Lasts
- An Evening’s Pleasantries
- Benedicte Verba
- Last Rites
- The Release
- Taking My Leave
- An Acknowledgement of Sources
- Love, Luck and Gratitude
- About the Author
- Copyright
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