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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Front Matter; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Plates; Chapter One; Background -- Before and After Drumcree; Chapter Two; Nights and Suppers of the Gods; Chapter Three; I Hope To Do My Children Some good Before I Die; Chapter Four; 'John Will Not Have Me Use The Word ""Home"" I This Country'; Chapter Five; Nicaragua -- Agent Dropped From the Sky; Chapter Six; Through Nicaragua ith Nicaragua; Chapter Seven; The Hoosiers Of Tennessee; Chapter Eight; Tranquility in Paris; Chapter Nine; The Deaths of Two Children; Chapter Ten; Scarlett Who?; Chapter Eleven. |
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Martyrdom -- It Is Quite a Bad TradeChapter Twelve; Professor Cornelius O'Shaughnessy in Decline; Chapter Thirteen; How Pleased My Poor Wife Will Be; Chapter Fourteen; Jenny Without John; Chapter Fifteen; Less Revolutionary than the Average English Shopkeeper; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; Plate Section. |
| Summary |
Between Two Flags tells the gripping story of the turbulent yet enduring and loving marriage of John Mitchel and Jenny Verner. Their courtship was opposed by both families, and their elopement and marriage caused public consternation, but this remarkable couple went on to live through and influence the politics of mid-19th-century Ireland and the United States. Both were ardent supporters of physical force Republicanism and of the American Confederates. Their story spans the landscape - of Ulster, Europe, the Americas, and Van Diemen's Land (the island of Tasmania) - on a journey through the G. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Mitchel, John, 1815-1875.
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Mitchel, John, 1815-1875. |
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Mitchel, Jenny.
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Mitchel, Jenny. |
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Nationalists -- Ireland -- Biography.
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Nationalists. |
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Ireland. |
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Biographies.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy. |
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Biographies.
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Print version: Russell, Anthony G. Between Two Flags : John Mitchel & Jenny Verner. Portland : Merrion, ©2015 9781785370014 |
| ISBN |
9781785370021 (electronic book) |
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1785370022 (electronic book) |
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1785370014 |
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9781785370014 |
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9781785370007 |
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1785370006 |
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9781785370014 |
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