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"This memoir is the most extensive surviving account of Cork Fenianism by a participant. John Sarsfield Casey, an activist who wrote letters to Fenian newspapers as 'The Galtee Boy', describes the round-up of Cork Fenians in 1865, their experiences on remand in Cork City Gaol, their trial in December 1865/January 1866 and their subsequent experiences of Irish and British prisons." "Casey's previously unpublished account portrays with humour and determination the harsh conditions endured by Fenian prisoners and their struggles to preserve their purpose and identity within a system designed to remake them as penitent convicts." Biographies of people mentioned in the memoir and a summary of newspaper accounts of Casey's trial are given in appendices.
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Frank Abrignani
reviewed The Galtee Boy: A Fenian Prison Narrative on November 18, 2009
The Galtee Boy: A Fenian Prison Narrative
If you're looking for a traditional autobiography, comprised of personal anecdotes and confessions, you will likely be disappointed. Debord's panegyric to himself always maintains an ironic, self-critical distance from its author. In this lacuna, he nonetheless finds ample space to reflect on insights of a life lived against and outside of its time; an unseasonable nature brought further into focus by regular allusions to the words and thoughts of figures long gone. The second part consists entirely of quotations and graphic ephemera from the author's life and travels. The work ends with explicit instructions for translation and publishing of future editions, as well as references to subsequent volumes which Debord requested be burned shortly before his suicide. A cryptic yet moving contemplation on the follies and seasons of a life like few others, which refuses elucidation of its subject, preferring instead to render him a far stranger creature than the one we may presume to know.
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