History of the Irish people / The period from 1829 to the Land Act of 1881 2

Front Cover -The Eve of the Famine The Potato Blight SECTION -Peel's Use of the Famine CHAPTER SECTION -Debate on Repeal -Municipal Reform O'Connell as a Worker -The Clontarf Meeting VIII The Conviction Denounced in Parliament -The Government and the Pope CHAPTER XVIII THE FAMINE IV -Peel's Commercial and Financial Policy Irish Landlordism-Religion-Law V -Peel's Views of Protection and Free Trade Purchase of Indian Corn VI -Coercion True Remedies Sheil on the State Trials Are Englishmen and Irishmen Equal VII -Lord John Russell's Government Measures of Relief Blunders VIII -The Poor Relief Bill Lessons of History PAGE THE SECESSION I -Death of Davis The Young Irelanders and O'Connell -Differences of Opinion and Policy Grounds of Dissension III -John Mitchel Prosecution of Duffy Holmes' Speech IV -Orange Opposition to the Union Meagher's Sword Speech V -The Right of Appeal to Arms Attractiveness of War VI -Illness of O'Connell Last Words of O'Connell 71 71 74 82 CHAPTER XX THE CONFEDERATION I -Death of O'Connell O'Connell's Greatness II -Rev John Kenyon Origin of "No Rent" Social Claims The Seceders and the People Confederate Plans Treason-Felony Bill Smith O'Brien V -Trial of O'Brien VI The Special Commission VII -The Limerick Trials VIII -Mitchel's Trial Holmes' Address to the Jury IX -The Sentence 83 84 84 85 87 87 89 Mitchel's Reply X -Mitchel's Hatred to England THE INSURRECTION I -Arrests under the Treason-Felony -Opposition to Landlord and Police CHAPTER XXII Election of Lucas CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII -Suspension of the Habeas Corpus 101