I.—­Early Recollections—­“Coming Over” from Ireland

II.—­Distinguished Irishmen—­“The Nation” News-paper—­“The Hibernians”

III.—­Ireland Revisited

IV.—­O’Connell in Liverpool—­Terence Bellew MacManus and the Repeal
Hall—­The Great Irish Famine

V.—­The “No-Popery” Mania—­The Tenant League—­The Curragh Camp

VI.—­The Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood—­Escape of James
Stephens—­Projected Raid on Chester Castle—­Corydon the Informer

VII.—­The Rising of 1867—­Arrest and Rescue of Kelly and Deasy—­The
Manchester Martyrdom

VIII.—­A Digression—­T.D.  Sullivan—­A National Anthem—­The Emerald
Minstrels—­“The Spirit of the Nation”

IX.—­A Fenian Conference at Paris—­The Revolvers for the Manchester
Rescue—­Michael Davitt sent to Penal Servitude

X.—­Rescue of the Military Fenians

XI.—­The Home Rule Movement

XII.—­The Franco-Prussian War—­An Irish Ambulance Corps—­The French
Foreign Legion

XIII.—­The Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain

XIV.—­Biggar and Parnell—­The “United Irishman”—­The O’Connell Centenary

XV.—­Home Rule in Local Elections—­Parnell succeeds Butt as President of the Irish Organisation in Great Britain

XVI.—­Michael Davitt’s Return from Penal Servitude—­Parnell and the
“Advanced” Organisation

XVII.—­Blockade Running—­Attempted Suppression of “United Ireland”—­William O’Brien and his Staff in Jail—­How Pat Egan kept the flag flying

XVIII.—­Patrick Egan

XIX.—­General Election of 1885—­Parnell a Candidate for Exchange
Division—­Retires in favour of O’Shea—­T.P.  O’Connor elected for
Scotland Division of Liverpool

XX.—­Gladstone’s “Flowing Tide”

XXI.—­The “Times” Forgeries Commission

XXII.—­Disruption of the Irish Party—­Home Rule carried in the
Commons—­Unity of Parliamentary Party Restored—­Mr. John Redmond becomes
Leader

XXIII.—­The Gaelic Revival—­Thomas Davis—­Charles Gavan
Duffy—­Anglo-Irish Literature—­The Irish Drama, Dramatists, and Actors

XXIV.—­“How is Old Ireland and how does She Stand?”

THE LIFE STORY OF AN OLD REBEL

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CHAPTER I.

Early recollections—­“Coming over” From Ireland.

I owe both the title of this book and the existence of the book itself to the suggestion of friends.  I suppose a man of 76 may be called “old,” although I have by no means given up the idea that I can still be of use to my country.