The Irish People (1863 newspaper)
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| Type | weekly newspaper |
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| Founded | 28 November 1863 |
| Political alignment | Irish nationalism |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Dublin |
| Part of a series on |
| Irish republicanism |
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The Irish People was a nationalist weekly newspaper first printed in
British Government
in 1865.
History
Other
rebellion of 1848 that followed these newspaper closures. He fled to France after the rebellion's failure. In 1856, he returned to Ireland and made connexions with former rebels. Two years later, he founded the Irish Republican Brotherhood (I.R.B.).[1][2]
In 1863, he told friends he was to start a newspaper. With funds through
U.K. and editorial content was critical of the political status quo. Superintendent Daniel Ryan of Dublin police's G division (largely concerned with Fenianism), noted the new publication's birth and commented on its low circulation.[3][4][5][6]
Plans for a rising in Ireland, hatched in the US, were found at
Q.C. Also noted was the striking - if not unusual - jury-packing (in a mostly-Catholic land, some of the juries involved were entirely Protestant).[5]
Luby, O'Leary and O'Connor received sentences of 20 years. O'Donovan Rossa was sentenced to life imprisonment, because of his previous convictions. The frail Kickham, lifelong near-blind and deaf, got 12 years; Judge Keogh praised his intellect and expressed sympathy with his plight, despite having refused his request for a writ of corpus to bring Luby and Charles Underwood O'Connell to his trial concerning his ignorance of the 'executive document', as Luby had already begun his sentence in Pentonville.[5][9]
References
- ^ O'Leary, John (1896). Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism. Vol. 1, 2. London: Downey & Co. Ltd. pp. 57–58.
- ^ Desmond, Ryan (1967). The Fenian Chief: A Biography of James Stephens. Dublin: Hely Thom Ltd. pp. 90–91.
- ^ O'Leary, John (1896). Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism. Vol. 1. London: Downey & Co. Ltd. p. 246.
- ^ Denieffe, Joseph (1969). A Personal Narrative of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood. Dublin: Irish University Press. p. 82.
- ^ a b c Campbell, Dr. Sarah. "Loyalty and Disloyalty: The Fenian treason trials, 1865-1867". danton.us. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ "The Irish People, v. 1, no. 1, November 28, 1863". digital.library.villanova.edu. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
- ^ Kostal, R.W. (1999). "Rebels in the Dock: The Prosecution of the Dublin Fenians, 1865–6". Irish-American Cultural Institute. 34 (2).
- ^ Desmond, Ryan (1967). The Fenian Chief: A Biography of James Stephens. Dublin: Hely Thom Ltd. p. 195.
- ^ O'Donoghue, David James (1912). O'Leary, John. Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 Suppplement, volume 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Archived from the original on 3 September 2013.