Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . he necessity forthought and action ; and the center of all was Dublin. The revolutions all overEurope, and especially the example of the three days of Paris in February, ex-cited the Nationalists to such a degree that the government took every precau-tion against a rising in March, 1848. The Bank of Ireland, Custom House, Trinity College, RoyalDublin Society, RoyalH
Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . he necessity forthought and action ; and the center of all was Dublin. The revolutions all overEurope, and especially the example of the three days of Paris in February, ex-cited the Nationalists to such a degree that the government took every precau-tion against a rising in March, 1848. The Bank of Ireland, Custom House, Trinity College, RoyalDublin Society, RoyalHibernian Academy, LinenHall, The Rotunda,Holmes Hotel, Aldbor-ough House, Dycers Sta-bles in Stephens Green,and other institutions, liter-ary, artistic and commer-cial, in and about the citywere strongly were hastilybuilt, to be thrown uponthe Liffey, the barrackswere provisioned as for asiege. The arrest of SmithOBrien, Thomas FrancisMeagher and John Mitchelfollowed. The latter, whoexpounded the most ad-vanced revolutionarydoctrines in his United Irishman, was speedily tried, convicted, and carried off in suppression in July of the national organs * and the capture or dispersal of. SiatUL of William III. * On the 8th of July, John Martin, Charles, Gavan Duffy, and Kevin Izod ODoherty were arrested. In theevening, the offices of the Nation and Felon were ransacked ; at midnight a descent was made on the Tribune by thepolice, and on the next morning Richard DAlton Williams, famous as Shamrock the poet, was arrested. The N^atioyi,edited by Duffy, had been the very soul of Young Ireland. For it the deceased Thomas Davis, the poet, a wonderful andindefatigable patriotic genius, had written. The other journals were started almost in the very crisis of the 48 move-ment. In Mitchels History the situation is thus presented, Yet, with all the odds against them, with the Irish gentrythoroughly corrupted or frightened out of their senses, and wit
Size: 1468px × 1702px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookidpicturesquei, bookyear1885
