"Freedom's battle, once begun,—Bequeath'd from bleeding sire to son,—Though baffled oft, is ever won."
PREFACE
INTRODUCTORY
THEOBALD WOLFE TONE.
WILLIAM ORR.
HENRY AND JOHN SHEARES.
ROBERT EMMET.
THOMAS RUSSELL.
JOHN MITCHEL.
JOHN MARTIN.
W.S. O'BRIEN.
THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER.
KEVIN IZOD O'DOHERTY.
TERENCE BELLEW M'MANUS.
THOMAS CLARKE LUBY.
JOHN O'LEARY.
JEREMIAH O'DONOVAN (ROSSA).
BRYAN DILLON, JOHN LYNCH, AND OTHERS.
CHARLES JOSEPH KICKHAM.
GENERAL THOMAS F. BURKE.
CAPTAIN JOHN M'AFFERTY.
EDWARD DUFFY.
STEPHEN JOSEPH MEANY.
CAPTAIN JOHN M'CLURE.
EDWARD KELLY.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM MACKAY.
Little more than a year ago we commenced an undertaking never previouslyattempted, yet long called for—the collection and publication, in acomplete form and at a low price, of the Speeches of Irish Patriots,spoken from the dock or the scaffold.
The extraordinary success which attended upon our effort was the bestproof that we had correctly appreciated the universal desire of theIrish people to possess themselves of such a memorial of NationalProtest—protest unbroken through generations of martyrs.
The work was issued in weekly numbers, and reached a sale previouslyunheard of in Irish literature. In a few months the whole issue wasexhausted, and for a long time past the demand f