The Gardens Of Hell: John Mitchel In Van Diemen's Land 1850-1853 by Mitchel, John (Peter O'Shaughnessy ed)

Kenthurst New South Wales: Kangaroo Press, 1988. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 126 pages, plus index and select bibliography. Annotated. Apart from a neat ownership signature, the book is in excellent condition, clean, unmarked and solid. "John Mitchel (Irish: Seán Mistéal; 3 November 1815 - 20 March 1875) was an Irish nationalist activist, author, and political journalist. In the Famine years of the 1840s he was a leading writer for The Nation newspaper produced by the Young Ireland group and their splinter from Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association, the Irish Confederation. As editor of his own paper, the United Irishman, in 1848 Mitchel was sentenced to 14-years penal transportation, the penalty for his advocacy of James Fintan Lalor's programme of co-ordinated resistance to exactions of landlords and to the continued shipment of harvests to England. Controversially for a republican tradition that has viewed Mitchel, in the… Read More

Kenhurst; Kangaroo Press; 1988.. First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 126, (ii); frontispiece, 43 b/w. plates, 1 illustration, appendix, The Young Irelanders: biographies, biographical notes, notes, select bibiography, index; dustjacket, previous owner's name and address on half title page, otherwise a very good copy. Peter O'Shaughnessy has provided an introduction and notes to this account taken from John Mitchel's Jail Journal. It deals with Mitchel's confinement, for three years, as a political prisoner in Van Diemen's Land".