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By Frank Thorpe Porter

Published 1875
Hodges, Foster

500 pages

Original from the New York Public Library

Digitized Jun 14, 2007

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CHAPTER	1
raheny, lonergan, kenna
CHAPTER II	8
vesey, gaoler, kilmainham
CHAPTER III	20
delancy, tudor, kilmore
CHAPTER IV	31
sparkes, alderman, eustace
CHAPTER V	39
chapelizod, lapstone, frogged
CHAPTER VII	53
gonne, unhanged, rackets

CHAPTER VIII	61
sirr, killiney, quarries
CHAPTER IX	72
committals, branagan, powerscourt
Mendicancy	89
kingstown, kilmainham, mendicancy
CHAPTER XI	97
carman, hirer, jarvey
CHAPTER XII	109
bittner, postillions, santry
CHAPTER XIII	118
glencree, owld, beyant
CHAPTER XIV	129
laffan, kingstown, constable
CHAPTER XV	137
gilmore, canavan, lizzy
CHAPTER XVI	148
maltster, dalkey, contraband
CHAPTER XVII	158
delahunt, sibthorpe, rathfarnham
CHAPTER XVIII	173
wanst, shure, bandon
CHAPTER XIX	190
strokestown, philter, raffle
CHAPTER XXI	228
mentz, coblentz, wiesbaden
CHAPTER XXII	247
desmarest, fouche, perrin
CHAPTER XXIII	282
cerfs, coignard, benavent
CHAPTER XXV	321
knocker, salthill, dargan
CHAPTER XXVI	339
donnybrook, shillelagh, malyn
CHAPTER XXVII	356
donough, bluebottle, collegians
CHAPTER XXVIII	374
gibraltar, priorato, algesiras
CHAPTER XXX	406
brophy, cusack, rossmore
CHAPTER XXXI	423
delaroche, darlings, hods
CHAPTER XXXII	440
orchis, invalides, fraternite
CHAPTER XXXIV	468
deneubourg, malo, mahony

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Kingstown - Page 91
own neighbourhood, and I have heard her tell them that Kingstown was a better and more lucky place for them than ever they would find Carlow to be. ...
more pages: 232 328 334 336 337

Wiesbaden - Page 245
When the musical performances and other amusements had terminated, I departed without recollecting the garment, and arrived at Wiesbaden before I ...
more pages: 234 239 240 242 243

Gibraltar - Page 394
In the expression of a wish for more quietude, I met no sympathy from those who had resided in Gibraltar for a year or two,.
more pages: 374 377 387 393 398

Dublin - Page 441
Now, without stigmatizing my own native Dublin as a peculiar locality of public impropriety, I would fearlessly assert that the English Metropolitan ...
more pages: 58 141 146 251 388

Clonmel - Page 495
Coony, a Catholic curate in a parish the name of which has escaped my memory; but it was near Clonmel. He was young, and zealous in advancing the ...
more pages: 221 494

Toulon - Page 286
would make a Count the hero or principal character of an imaginative production, would shrink from choosing him amongst the galley slaves of Toulon. ...
more pages: 283 284 460

Portrane - Page 124
George Evans, of Portrane, to spend a week at his hospitable mansion. Arrangements were made by me with my colleagues to admit of my absence for that ...
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Arklow - Page 491
her of the Militia band then stationed at Arklow was put forward for trial on an indictment for the manslaughter of a comrade, whom he had killed with ...
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Galway - Page 407
Amongst his intimates the most intimate was a gentleman who resided in the town of Galway, and vvhoFe person was so very bulky as to obtain for him ...
more pages: 404 410 484 489

Waterloo - Page 457
At Waterloo he was sold. At Paris he was betrayed. It was politically expedient for Napoleon to imprison Ferdinand of Spain, when he entered France as ...
more pages: 45 63 81 238 460

Liverpool - Page 251
In about six weeks after this incident I went to Liverpool with a near relative who was about to proceed to Australia, and having gone into the ...
more pages: 27 53 334 441 446

Paris - Page 481
I feel equally convinced that any similar religious or ecclesiastical demonstration in Paris could not pass through any street of that city. ...
more pages: 437 441 457 462 474

Saint Malo - Page 483
Be that as it may, the people of Saint Malo have done honour to themselves in honouring Chateaubriand. We may apply to him his own words about Bossuet ...

Drogheda - Page 25
as having been seen in Christian Wilson's company in Hoey's Court for some time after his own father supposed him to have left Dublin for Drogheda. ...

Plymouth - Page 398
She said that her native place was in Durham, and that on arriving at Plymouth she should apply to be transmitted home by the parochial authorities. ...
more pages: 396 397 400

Donabate - Page 124
Accordingly, I came to Dublin from Donabate by an early train, and commenced the custody cases about ten o'clock, am A constable prosecuted a lad whom ...

London - Page 40
do a profitable business in bills on London amongst the Dublin traders, for at that time the facilities of letters of credit were very little known. ...
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Enniscorthy - Page 491
A woman named Hester Carroll, who had been for some time a pest and disgrace to the town of Enniscorthy, was put forward, charged with a robbery of a ...

Bonn - Page 235
I left Dublin at the latter end of May, and proceeded through London to Ostend, and from thence by railway to Bonn, where I commenced ascending "the ...
more pages: 236

Madrid - Page 385
Alfonso, who has recently been elevated to regal dignity in Madrid, introduced the subject in his address on assuming the sovereignty; ...
more pages: 396

Southampton - Page 254
Ryan was proceeding to France, when he ascertained that Birch was in Southampton, and there the capture was effected, A rumor was circulated in Dublin ...
more pages: 370 480

Corpus Christi - Page 481
Malo on a Sunday when the procession of Corpus Christi passed through the principal streets, and it appeared to me to produce amongst all classes most ...

Cayenne - Page 445
The French own Cayenne, but I never met a French cook who was acquainted with such a stimulant as Cayenne pepper, nor did I ever sec it at table. ...

Ostend - Page 235
I left Dublin at the latter end of May, and proceeded through London to Ostend, and from thence by railway to Bonn, where I commenced ascending "the ...

Rathcoole - Page 8
They were men of a sinister repu-tation, who resided near Rathcoole, and spent more money than they could be supposed to have acquired honestly, ...

Ballinasloe - Page 100
Before the opening of the Great Southern and Western Railway, the Grand Canal Company ran passen-ger boats to the towns of Athy and Ballinasloe. ...

Youghal - Page 202
could truly state; but I was unfortunately detained in London, until it became impossible for me to run down to Mallow or Youghal before the auction. ...

Dover - Page 487
It is said that this bird was formerly to be seen in flocks at various places on the English coast, especially Dover cliff, and that now it cannot be ...

Bristol - Page 5
There he kept him concealed for upwards of a week, and then succeeded in shipping him for Bristol. From thence he proceeded, unsuspected and ...

Stockholm - Page 133
He had been educated, as I heard, in Stockholm, and acquired a proficiency in several European languages. He had also considerable classical ...

Mayence - Page 243
During my stay at Wiesbaden, I visited Mentz, or Mayence, several times. On the first occasion, I was crossing the bridge from the right bank of the ...

Glasgow - Page 6
building of the same designation in Glasgow have derived a lasting fame from the pen of Scott; and whilst the English language exists, the readers of ...
more pages: 233

Manchester - Page 332
I dealt summarily with the female prisoners, as the young woman whom they attacked was obliged to leave immediately for Manchester, where she had ...

Lisbon - Page 112
Quin received a parcel in which there were two nicely bound volumes, and a compli-mentary letter, sent from Lisbon by Don Pedro Cabrito. ...
more pages: 382

Fredericton, New Brunswick - Page 180
In the year 1842, a soldier in a regiment stationed at Fredericton, New Brunswick, stated to his officer that he had been concerned in the crime, ...

Lille - Page 11
On further enquiry, he ascertained that the soldier's name was Martin Vaughan, and that he was in the garrison of Lille. ...
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Swansea - Page 146
She had not been present at the marriage, but was satis-fied that her brother was living, for she had seen him at Swansea about a month previous, ...

Belfast - Page 36
The traveller departed, and a considerable time elapsed before he reappeared in Belfast. When he returned, his first visit was to the author of the ...
more pages: 423

Cambridge - Page 217
Rice had no longer a chance of election there, but he was returned at the next dissolution for an English borough, I believe for Cambridge. ...

Celbridge - Page 18
Woolstans near Celbridge, in the county of Kildare, occupied high position in Ireland previous to the reign of Elizabeth, and from a collateral branch ...

Milan - Page 318
There was a very great value accruing to the legatee in diamonds and hidden coin, but that treasure was in the vicinity of Milan, and the state-ments ...

Sheffield - Page 387
derived from the factories of Manchester, Leeds, Notting-ham, or Sheffield. I have already mentioned several Spanish towns which I visited for the ...

Algiers - Page 371
watch-towers from which in former days warning signals were exhibited to denote the approach of hostile or predatory vessels from Algiers or Barbary. ...

San Roque - Page 378
During my visit to Gibraltar, I went to see bull-fights at Algesiras, San Roque, and Malaga. They are certaiuly national institutions, which I firmly ...

Brussels - Page 247
ON my way home from the Rhineland, I stopped for two days in Brussels, the second of which happened to be the day on which the anniversary of the ...

New Brunswick - Page 152
New Brunswick, named, as well as I can remember, "The Hope," arrived in Dublin in the summer of 1852. She was boarded in the bay by some officers of ...

Malaga - Page 378
During my visit to Gibraltar, I went to see bull-fights at Algesiras, San Roque, and Malaga. They are certaiuly national institutions, which I firmly ...

Philadelphia - Page 483
He went to Philadelphia to salute Washington. Subsequently he travelled into the far West. Returning to Europe, Chateaubriand endured the miseries of ...

Barcelona - Page 353
His clothes spic and span new, without e'er a speck, A neat Barcelona* entwined on his neck ; He goes into a tent and he spends half-a-crown, ...

Tipperary - Page 404
They thought Tipperary could ne'er meet Tyrone, And part in whole skin without any sore bone, That lads from old Galway or Southern Tralee; ...

Nenagh - Page 244
During our walk, I asked him how he knew my name, and was informed that he remembered seeing me at the assizes of Nenagh; that he was a " Tip- perary ...

Quebec - Page 17
His military career was terminated by a wound at the capture of Quebec, in 1761, which incapa-citated him for further service: he died at Bath in 1776 ...

Marseilles - Page 476
Amongst them there was one Irishman, Mon- seigneur Cruise; he was the bishop of Marseilles. ALGERIAN PRODUCTIONS. From the abundance and variety of ...

Moscow - Page 458
victorious eagle of France had triumphantly entered Ma-drid, Lisbon, Berlin, Rome, Vienna, Milan, Naples, Munich, Venice, Hamburg, and Moscow; ...
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Athens - Page 204
I was obliged," said he " to leave Athens by the tyran-nical persecution of Otho, and I betook myself to Zante, in which island I possessed extensive ...

Cardiff - Page 140
Edmond Morgan, of Cardiff, for £1100. " I hope, Madame, you will feel that in the capacity of your respected relative's confidential adviser I have ...

New York - Page 96
Hamburg, Havre, and New York. These were used to seal forged certificates and attestations, which were trans-mitted for use to more populous places; ...

Don Carlos - Page 413
the standard of Donna Maria, and subsequently joined the foreign legion embodied to contend against the claims of Don Carlos to the crown of Spain. ...

Don Pedro - Page 376
The Spanish name is derived from a fable, which describes Don Pedro to have been a confirmed rake, who slept all the day and spent the night in ...

Wellington - Page 359
He is decorated with the Peninsular medal for military service in the army under Wellington in his early Spanish campaigns. ...

Sydney - Page 160
applied it in a prologue spoken by him previous to the performance of a play at Sydney by a company consisting exclusively of transported thieves— ...