Jail Journal ... With an introductory narrative of transactions in Ireland.

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Dublin: M.H. Gill 1921. 8vo. Orig. cloth (lightly rubbed). (xlviii 464pp.). With frontisp. portr. and 32 full-page plates. Light toning on end-papers. Previous owners details on front end-paper. NOTE: Mitchel was an advocate for the repeal of the Act of Union and armed resistance against England. He was convicted in 1848 and sent to Van Diemen's Land from which he escaped and moved to America. This edit. is reprinted from "The Citizen" Mitchel's first New York newspaper in which 'Jail Journal' was originally published in 1854. Except for some half dozen verbal changes this edit. is an exact reproduction of that serialized work.