NEW IRELAND. BY A. M. SULLIVAN. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. BIBLIOTHERS NOV 1877. BODLEIANA LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON, CROWN BUILDINGS, 188 FLEET STREET. NEW IRELAND. CHAPTER I. THE PHOENIX CONSPIRACY. If the absence of political life and action could be called tranquillity, or torpor be deemed repose, Ireland from 1852 to 1858 enjoyed that peaceful rest, that cessation from agitation, which so many authorities declared to be the one thing wanting for her prosperity and happiness. With the overthrow and ruin of the Tenant-right movement in 1852 there set in a state of things which ought to have gladdened the hearts of all such monitors. Never before, since the Emancipation campaign of 1829, had Ireland been without some popular organisation or public movement that gave a voice to the national aspirations. This political activity, which to many eyes seemed so deplorable, at one time occupied itself with Catholic Emancipation, at another with VOL. II. 18 B |