| Domain | Monograph or Collective Volume |
|---|---|
| Title | The Galtee Boy : a Fenian Prison Narrative |
| Author | Casey, John Sarsfield, 1846-1896 |
| Editor | Maume, Mairead : Maume, Patrick : Casey, Mary |
| Publication Date | 2005 |
| Publisher | University College Dublin |
| Place Of Publication | Dublin |
| Number Of Pages | 226 p. |
| Era Covered | 1867 — 1870 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 1904558224 |
| Subject Classification | |
| Person As Subject | Casey, John Sarsfield, 1846-1896 |
| Place | County Cork |
| Country | Australia : Ireland |
| Notes | J. S. Casey (1846-98) of Co. Cork, deported to Australia 1867, returned to Ireland in 1870. An account of the author's arrest in Cork City and his prison experiences before and after trial and conviction in prisons in Cork, London, and Portland. The MS was written after the author's return from Australia (where he was deported just after this narrative ends) but was never completed and remained in the possession of his family. Notes and introduction by the editors outline Casey's career (he was the son of a shopkeeper from Mitchelstown in NE Cork, where he became involved in Fenianism. After his return he was sued for libel by a local land agent whom he had accused of oppressing tenants, in a case which became a cause celebre and did much to highlight the shortcomings of the Irish land system; he remained politically active locally until his death in 1896) and give details of the Cork Fenian trials from contemporary newspaper coverage. Much vivid and nauseated description of prison conditions.|editors Mairead Maume, Patrick Maume, Mary Casey |
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