Last Conquest of Ireland

by John Mitchel, Patrick Maume (Editor)

Mitchel's account of the Repeal campaign, the Famine and the 1848 Rising, which originally appeared in Mitchel's Tennessee-based newspaper, The Southern Citizen, in 1858. Mitchel was a significant and controversial figure. Last Conquest, originally written as a riposte to American Nativist hostility to Famine immigrants, is well known in Famine debates for its claim that the Famine was a deliberate act of genocide by the British government.

Genres: History, Ireland, Nonfiction

220 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1873

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