IRELAND SINCE PARNELL
BY
CAPTAIN D.D. SHEEHAN
BARRISTER-AT-LAW
LATE M.P. FOR MID-CORK
LONDON
DANIEL O'CONNOR
90 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, W.C.1
1921
CONTENTS
[FOREWORD]
The writer of this work first saw the light on a modest farmstead in the parish of Droumtariffe, North Cork. He came of a stock long settled there, whose roots were firmly fixed in the soil, whose love of motherland was passionate and intense, and who were ready "in other times," when Fenianism won true hearts and daring spirits to its side, to risk their all in yet one more desperate battle for "the old cause." His father was a Fenian, and so was every relative of his, even unto the womenfolk. He heard around the fireside, in his younger days, the stirring stories of all the preparations which were then made for striking yet another blow for Ireland, and he too sighed and sorrowed for the disappointments that fell upon noble hearts and ardent souls with the failure of "The Rising."