References

Bibliography (and further reading)

An enormous literature pertaining to the Young Irelanders focusses on different aspects, periods and identities of the Young Ireland movement. Following are several books and articles that have been useful in preparing this account of the Young Irelander story in Van Diemen's Land. Most are accessible to the general reader.

An acknowledged authority on the Young Ireland Movement, Emeritus Professor Richard Davis has posted a bibliography for further information on his website.

Primary

Colonial Times, 25 April 1851 [letter from O'Donohoe to M'Sorley published in the Colonial Times as an advertisement].

Denison, William, Sir and Lady, Varieties of Vice-Regal Life (Van Diemen's Land Section) first published 1870),R. Davis, and S. Petrow (eds.), Hobart: Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 2004.

Mitchel, John, Jail Journal, Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son Ltd, 1913.

The Examiner, 'Van Diemen Dissident', 1 February 1992.

Secondary

Barker, G.F.R., 'Martin, John (1812-1875)', The Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, vol. XII, published since 1917, pp. 1170-1172.

Barker, G.F.R., 'Meagher, Thomas Francis (1823-1867)', The Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, vol. XIII, published since 1917, pp. 194-196.

Barker, G.F.R., 'Mitchel, John (1815-1875)', The Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, vol. XIII, published since 1917, pp. 505-507.

Barker, G.F.R., 'O'Brien, William Smith (1803-1864)', The Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, vol. XIV, published since 1917, pp. 777-782.

Bethell, L.S., 'Book Review: T.J. Kiernan, The Irish Exiles in Australia by L. S. Bethell',   Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers and Proceedings, vol. 4, no. 4, February 1956, pp. 74-76.

Breen, Anthony M. The Cappoquin rebellion 1849. Thurston: Drecroft, 1998. 96 p.

Cook, Chris, Dictionary of Historical Terms, New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1991 [first published 1983].

Cullen, Rev. J.H., Young Ireland in Exile: The Story of the Men of '48 in Tasmania, Dublin: Talbot Press, 1928.

Davis, Richard, Travels  of William Smith O'Brien in Europe and the Wider World, 1843-1864,  Dublin: Geography Publications, 2013.

Davis, Richard, Irish Traces on Tasmania History 1803-2004, Hobart: Sassafras Books, 2005.

Davis, Richard, 'The Irish Community', Companion to Tasmanian History, Hobart: Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, 2005, p. 190.

Davis, Richard, 'Irish Political Prisoners', Companion to Tasmanian History, Hobart: Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, 2005, p. 190.

Davis, Richard, Revolutionary Imperialist: William Smith O'Brien 1803-1864, Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1998.

Davis, Richard and Stefan Petrow, (eds.), Ireland & Tasmanian 1848: Sesquicentenary     Papers, Sydney: Crossing Press, 1998.

Davis, Richard (ed.), 'To Solitude Consigned': The Tasmanian Journal of William Smith     O'Brien 1849-1853, Sydney: Crossing Press, 1995.

Davis, Richard, 'Patrick O'Donohoe: Outcast of the Exiles' in Reece, R.H.W. (ed.), Exiles from Erin: Convict Lives in Ireland and Australia, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991.

Davis, Richard, 'Unpublicised Young Ireland Prisoners in Van Diemen's Land', Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers and Proceedings, vol. 38, 1991, pp. 131-7.

Davis, Richard, The Young Ireland Movement, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan Ltd., 1987.

Davis, Richard, 'Chartists or Young Irelanders?: Graham and Bamford's Reassessment Reassessed', Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers and Proceedings, vol. 32, no. 3, September 1985, pp. 111-117.

Glover, Margaret and Alf McLochlainn (eds.), Letters of an Irish Patriot: William Paul Dowling in Tasmania, Tasmania: Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 2005.

Graham, Merrilyn and David Bamford, 'Chartists and Young Irelanders: Towards a Reassessment of Political Prisoners in Van Diemen's Land, Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers and Proceedings, vol. 32, no. 2, June 1985, pp. 68-74.

Griffith, A. (ed.), Meagher of the Sword: Speeches of Thomas Francis Meagher in Ireland 1846-1848, Dublin, 1917.

Hamilton, J.A., 'MacManus, Terence Bellew (1823?-1860)', The Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, vol. XII, published since 1917, pp. 673.

Howell, P.A., 'The Irish Exile: And Freedom's Advocate, The Rise and Fall of a Convict Newspaper in the Denison Period', Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers and Proceedings, vol. 26, no. 4, December 1979, pp. 115-131.

Keneally, Thomas, The Great Shame: A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New, Milson's Point, NSW: Random House, 1988.

Kiely, Brendan, The Waterford rebels of 1849: the last young Irelanders and their lives in America, Bermuda and Van Diemen's Land (Dublin 1999)

Kiernan, T.J., The Irish Exiles in Australia, Melbourne-London: Burns & Oates, 1954.

Knowlton, Steven R., 'The Politics of John Mitchel: A Reappraisal', Éire-Ireland, vol. 22, no. 2, 1987, pp. 38-40.

McConville, S., Irish Political Prisoners, 1848-1922: Theatres of War, London: Routledge, 2003.

O'Shaughnessy, Peter (ed), The Gardens of Hell: John Mitchel in Van Diemen's Land 1850–1853 (John Mitchel), Kenthurst, NSW: Kangaroo Press, 1988, pp 71–2.

O'Sullivan, T.F., The Young Irelanders, Tralee: Kerryman, 1944.

Petrow, S., 'Men of Honour? The Escape of the Young Irelanders From Van Diemen's Land', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 7, 2005, pp. 139-160.

Petrow, S., 'Island Prison: John Mitchel in Van Diemen's Land', The Australian Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 3, 2003, pp. 62-78.

Petrow, S., 'Idealism Betrayed: John Donnellan Balfe, Supergrass of 1848', in Davis, Richard and Stefan Petrow (eds.), Ireland & Tasmanian 1848: Sesquicentenary Papers, Sydney: Crossing Press, 1998, pp. 70-95.

Reece, R.H.W. (ed.), Exiles from Erin: Convict Lives in Ireland and Australia, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991.

Robertson, Priscilla, Revolutions of 1848: A Social History, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971.

Robson, Lloyd, A History of Tasmania, Volume One, Van Diemen's Land from the Earliest Times to 1855, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Robson, Lloyd, 'John Donellan Balfe (1816-1880)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 3, Melbourne University Press, 1969, p. 79.

Roe, M., 'The Ubiquity of Irishness in Tasmanian History: One Generalist's Experience', Bulletin of the Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, no. 2, 1989, pp. 84-92.

Rude, G., 'O'Doherty, Kevin Izod (1823-1905)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 5, Melbourne University Press, 1974, p. 355.

Touhill, Blanche, M., William Smith O'Brien and His Irish Revolutionary Companions in Penal Exile, Columbia & London, University of Missouri Press, 1981.

Williams, John, 'Irish Convicts and Van Diemen's Land', Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers and Proceedings, vol. 19, no. 3, September 1972, pp. 100-120.