Bibliographic Details
Summary:	Broadside featuring statement issued by William Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher, Terence Bellew McManus and Patrick O'Donohoe while incarcerated in Richmond Gaol [Richmond General Penitentiary, Grangegorman, later (1897) Richmond District Lunatic Asylum] in 1848 following the incident known as the Young Irelander Rebellion [or "Battle of Ballingarry"] in August 1848. All were arrested, tried and convicted for sedition but public outcry saw a royal clemency commuting the death sentences passed to transportation for life to "the other side of the world" and in 1849 they were all were sent to Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania] with a stipulation that each of them were to reside in separate districts there.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published / Created:	Dublin : Printed and sold wholesale by R.E. Bamford, 59 Upper Stephen Street, [n.d, 1848]
Subjects:	O'Brien, William Smith, > 1803-1864 Meagher, Thomas Francis, > 1823-1867 McManus, Terence Bellew, > 1811?-1861 O'Donohoe, Patrick, > 1808-1854 Richmond General Penitentiary (Ireland) Nationalism > Ireland > History > 19th century Young Ireland movement Ireland > History > Rising of 1848 Ireland > History > 19th century Ireland > Politics and government > 19th century
Notes:	This item is held in the Department of Ephemera. Physical description: 1 sheet ; 34 x 22 cm. more