In 1848, Smith O'Brien, a respectable and humorless Member of Parliament who ...
In 1848, Smith O'Brien, a respectable and humorless Member of Parliament who seems to have been drawn to Repeal by simple despair of the Union, was caught levying war on the Queen's Majesty in the widow McCormack's cabbage garden.
The campaign was brief, as O'Brien had forgotten to provide his army with anything to eat.
He was sentenced to the usual penalty, which was at once commuted to transportation.
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With the maddening logic which Irishmen have at command he argued that ...
With the maddening logic which Irishmen have at command he argued that as he had not been convicted of anything deserving transportation, he must be pardoned or he must be han
Engels's Condition of the Working Class, which projected the image of the ...
Engels's Condition of the Working Class, which projected the image of the exploiting capitalist on the m
In this last provision, and in the four inspectors appointed to observe ...
In this last provision, and in the four inspectors appointed to observe the operation of the law, we see the Radical hand.
Otherwise the Act is a w