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ni_clachan: My father died, I closed his eyes,
Outside our cabin door.
The Lord Lieutenant and Sheriff too,
were there the day before.
And then my long lost mother and sisters three also,
Were forced to go with broken hearts,
From the Glen of Aherlow.
Charles Joseph Kickham 1882
Emotions!
AnChartlann: “Leaves From A Journal,” a serialised 1863 journal by Charles Kickham of his visit to America that year is now on the site.
AnChartlann: "John O’Mahony has not laboured and lived in vain. And, oh! how he did love Ireland. She was his mother, his queen, his idol, his all the world! And in the long roll of her patriot martyrs and confessors no name will shine with purer lustre than his."
AnChartlann: Also added to the site is Kickham's account of the 1848 rebellion as a young man that he gave to Charles Gavan Duffy in the final months of his life in 1882.
AnChartlann: "I believe, my lords, I have said enough already. I will only add that I am convicted for doing nothing but my duty. I have endeavoured to serve Ireland, and now I am prepared to suffer for Ireland."
AnChartlann: The first of articles published in the Fenian newspaper Irish People by Charles Kickham have been added to the site. Most of Kickham's writings were an attack on the Irish Catholic hierarchy for their stance against the IRB.
AnChartlann: Also of note is the ballad ‘Patrick Sheehan’, based by Kickham on the true story of an Irish veteran, forced into the British army by poverty and blinded during the Crimean war, only to be denied his pension after 6 months and then arrested for begging...
AnChartlann: We add to our increasingly rich collection of literature the Poetry of Charles J.Kickham, a distinguished writer and veteran revolutionary, famous for his role in the Young Ireland movement and the Irish Republican Brotherhood, for which he was imprisoned!
shawnmooney: Marked as to-read: Knocknagow by Charles Joseph Kickham
1916artsclub: Charles Joseph Kickham (9 May 1828 - 22 August 1882). Read more on our Facebook page
