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About this book
'God save all here.'
Summer, 1847. People are getting used to the corpses lying by the road and along the ditches. For John Mitchel - lawyer, journalist, activist, politician - the word 'famine' will forever conjure the hollowed faces of Ireland's dead, the liquid Gaelic of the past now mute on their tongues.
Propelled by disgust at the injustice, Mitchel will do all he can to fight for the destitute, the starved, the forgotten. His odyssey will take him all the way to America - that land of promise - but it will draw him into a terrible paradox, blurring the lines that divide liberation from dispossession and forcing him to ask: can one act of devastating cruelty and oppression prevent another?
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Table of contents
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- 1: Who Will Marry Jenny Verner? 1836 and Times Various
- 2: Jenny: Elopement Play, and Marriage, 1836–37
- 3: Early Marriage, Jenny and John Mitchel
- 4: A Further Account of the Mitchels, 1843
- 5: Hectic Days in Banbridge and Dublin, Mid-1840s
- 6: Dublin Life, 1845–47
- 7: The Further Story of the Mitchels in 1847–48
- 8: John Mitchel, May 1848
- 9: Jenny on Eve of Sentencing, and Sentencing Day, 1848
- 10: Mitchel’s Transportation
- 11: Mitchel – from Spike Island to Bermuda, 1848
- 12: Mitchel in Bermuda, 1848–49
- 13: Mitchel to the Cape
- 14: Mitchel Nears Australia, Late 1849
- 15: Living as a Bothwell Convict, from 1850 Onwards
- 16: Mitchel with Jenny, Jenny with Mitchel
- 17: Nicaragua Comes
- 18: Mitchel: Waiting for Nicaragua, 1853
- 19: Vandemonian Running, 1853
- 20: Jenny in Bothwell
- 21: Mitchel on the Tamar
- 22: Jenny, Winter 1853
- 23: Mitchel’s Escape, 1853
- 24: Dancing Liberty’s Dance
- 25: New York, November 1853
- 26: Dancing Liberty’s Dance (2)
- 27: A Visit from Mr Beecher, 1854
- 28: Meagher Back in New York, and John Mitchel Goes South, Spring 1854
- 29: Greeting the Slaves
- 30: Broaching the South, Late Summer 1854–55
- Author’s Note
- About the Author
- Also by Tom Keneally
- Copyright