A Chronicle of Jails

by Darrell Figgis

A CHRONICLE OF JAILS

DARRELL FIGGIS

“Jail Journals are always a fascinating study. The self-recorded thoughts and impressions of man forcibly isolated from his fellows in the solitude of the jail have a certain interest which is hard to explain. This is the case even when the recorder is a criminal. But when, as in the present instance, the individual is a highly cultured ‘political felon’ making his first acquaintance with the means and methods which twentieth century civilisation has provided for the reformation of those who transgress its laws, then, indeed, we have in such a one’s ‘Jail Journal’ something of surpassing interest.”—Mac.

THIRD EDITION

DUBLIN: THE TALBOT PRESS LTD.

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

POETRY

• A Vision of Life (1909)
• The Crucibles of Time (1911)
• Queen Tara: A Tragedy (1913)
• The Mount of Transfiguration (1915)

NOVELS

• Broken Arcs (1911)
• Jacob Eltham (1914)
• Children of Earth (Shortly)

STUDIES

• Shakespeare: A Study (1911)
• Studies & Appreciations (1912)
• The Lyric Cry: An Anthology (Shortly)
• William Carleton
  In “Every Irishman’s Library” (Shortly)

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A
CHRONICLE
OF JAILS

DARRELL FIGGIS

DUBLIN
THE TALBOT PRESS
LIMITED
1918

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THIRD EDITION

Printed at The Talbot Press, 89 Talbot Street, Dublin

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TO
THE LADY AT THE GATE

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