CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY 48

RICHARD O'GORMAN, JUNIOR 64

PATRICK O'DONOHOE 64

THOMAS DEVIN REILLY 80

JOHN MITCHEL 96

ROBERT HOLMES 112

THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER 128

JOHN MARTIN 128

KEVIN IZOD O'DOHERTY 144

BALLINGARRY, SLIEVENAMON IN THE DISTANCE (1848) 160

A STREET IN BALLINGARRY (1848) 176

THE WIDOW MCCORMACK'S HOUSE, NEAR BALLINGARRY. (1848) 192

THE KNOCKMELDOWN MOUNTAINS FROM ARDFINAN (1848) 208

DUNMANWAY PROM THE BRIDGE ON THE CORK ROAD (1848) 224

THURLES ON MARKET DAY (August, 1848) 240

JOHN O'MAHONY 256

JAMES STEPHENS 256

AHENY HILL, SHOWING THE CONSTABULARY POLICE BARRACK DESTROYED
BY THE INSURGENTS (1848) 272

JOHN SAVAGE 288

LOUIS NAPOLEON 308

LEDRU-ROLLIN, GENERAL CAVAIGNAC, LAMARTINE (1848) 316

AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION

There are few facts detailed in the following pages that need
explanation here. If my motive in writing them were personal
gratification, or simply a desire to preserve a memorial of scenes in
which I took an anxious part, I might labour to make the narration more
interesting to my readers, without any care for future consequences.

But through every disaster I preserved unbroken faith in the purpose and
courage of my country. I believed, and still believe that her true heart
is faithful to liberty and hopeful for the future; and this conviction
involved me in a struggle with the apparently opposite tendency of the
facts I was bound to narrate. Had I to write for a new generation, upon
whom these facts could have made no false impressions, my task would be
easy. I am persuaded that a simple statement of all that occurred would
satisfy any candid mind that no disgrace attached to Ireland