Their Dear Ones

TO

Ireland

CONTENTS

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Introduction[ix]
The Mothers of ’Ninety-Eight[3]
The Mother of the Emmets[6]
The Mother of Lord Edward Fitzgerald[28]
The Mother of the Sheareses[53]
The Mother of the Teelings[68]
The Wives of ’Ninety-Eight:
The Wife of Theobald Wolfe Tone[103]
The Wife of Thomas Addis Emmet[146]
The Wife of Samuel Neilson[165]
The Wife of Lord Edward Fitzgerald[186]
The Sister of Henry Joy McCracken[215]
Some Other Sisters of ’Ninety-Eight:
Mary Anne Emmet[243]
Mary Tone[247]
Lady Lucy Fitzgerald[249]
Julia Sheares[253]
Miss Byrne[257]
Miss Teeling[259]
Miss Hazlett[259]
Sarah Curran and Anne Devlin[267]
Some Other Romances of ’Ninety-Eight[297]
Some Obscure Heroines of ’Ninety-Eight[311]

INTRODUCTION

Alas! how sad by Shannon’s flood,

The blush of morning sun appears!