DomainArticle in Book
Title"Fenianism as a global phenomenon : Thomas O'Malley Baines, papal soldier and Fenian convict"
Title Of BookLitvack, Leon; Graham, Colin (ed.), Ireland and Europe in the nineteenth century (Nineteenth-century Ireland Series, 10) (Dublin: Four Courts, 2006)
AuthorMaume, Patrick
Publication Date2006
Start-End Page148 — 159
Number Of Pages12 p.
Era Covered1844 — 1900
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1851829180
Subject Classification
Person As SubjectBaines, John Thomas, 1820-1875
CountryIreland
NotesAn account (based on his little-known autobiography) of the career of Thomas O'Malley Baines, whose family were evicted from the Westport estate in Co. Mayo during the Famine. After fighting in the Papal army he became a Fenian organiser, was transported to Western Australia with other Fenian convicts and from there went to California where he remained active in Irish nationalist politics while participating in Dennis Kearney's populist campaign against Chinese immigration. His autobiography criticises Leo XIII's condemnation of the Irish Plan of Campaign land agitation as misinformed, claiming that British political intrigues had been responsible for the overthrow of the Papal states and that Britain was now infiltrating agents into the USA with subversive intent.
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