IRISH NATIONALISM - Guilty or Not Guilty? Speeches From the Dock, or Protests of Irish Patriotism. Part 1; The Dock and the Scaffold: The Manchester Tragedy and the Cruise of the Jacknell; The ‘Wearing of the Green’ or The Prosecuted Funeral Procession.

Decorative Irish binding commemorating the political trials of Irish nationalist, with a six panelled spine and a decorative Irish harp in the top compartment. In very good condition, half bound in green and brown roan; endpapers age toned and inscribed in a contemporary hand ‘W[illia]m Burns’ to front pastedown. All 3 sections of this second edition which are compiled as one are in very good condition, published by AM Sullivan, Dublin in 1868.

OCLC locates only Kansas, Michigan, NLI and Manchester.

1. Part 1. Speeches From the Dock, or Protests of Irish Patriotism. Includes speeches by Theobald Wolfe Tone, William Orr, The Brothers Sheares, Robert Emmet, John Martin (1848), William Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher and more. Illustrated. 238 pp.

2. The Dock and the Scaffold: The Manchester Tragedy and the Cruise of the Jacknell. Illustrated. 96 pp.

3. The ‘Wearing of the Green’ or The Prosecuted Funeral Procession. 85 pp.