John Mitchel (1815-1875) was one of the most prominent figures in the Young Ireland movement, and is also regarded as being a major influence on Fenianism. In 1848, after being arrested for charges of sedition, Mitchel was transported to Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania), before later moving to the United States. It was in this period he wrote Jail Journal, which Pádraig Pearse called the “last gospel of the New Testament of Irish nationality.” In America, he became a fervent supporter of the Confederate cause during the American Civil War, his reputation has since been shrouded in controversy for his defence of slavery. After twenty-seven years in exile, he finally returned to Ireland, being elected as an abstentionist MP for Tipperary shortly before his death.
PDFs
Writings
Letters of John Mitchel
Jail Journal
Ireland, France and Prussia (1866-71)
The Crusade of the Period (1873)
The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps) (1882)
An Ulsterman For Ireland (1917)
Mitchel’s Letter to Lord John Russell on the Treason Felony Bill
John Mitchel on “Gaelic Ireland.”
The Life and Times of Aodh O’Neill, Prince of Ulster
The Anti-Irish Catholics (1843)
The English Government and the Irish Presbyterians (1843)
The Sorrows of an Irish Landlord (1843)
The Oregon―Ireland. (1845)
The Detectives (1845)
Threats of Coercion (1845)
The People’s Food (1845)
Review of Carlyle’s “Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches” (1846)
Famine (1846)
Beware of the Whigs (1846)
“English Rule.” (1846)
Political Economy For Ireland (1846)
Speech on the Peace Resolutions (1846)
To the Surplus Population of Ireland (1847)
The Famine Year (1847)
Next Year’s Famine (1847)
Preface to ‘Irish Political Economy’ (1847)
More Alms For The “Destitute Irish” (1847)
To Lord Clarendon, Her Majesty’s Ameliorator-General and General Developer of Ireland (1848)
Speech From The Dock (1848)
On the Office and Duty of Jurors Trying ‘Political Offences’ in Ireland (1848)
John Mitchel’s Petition To The Houses of Parliament (1848)
To The Secretary of the St. Patrick’s Confederate Club (1848)
Prospectus of The United Irishman (1848)
Address to the Citizens of Dublin (1848)
To Mr. Sergeant Howley, Assistant-Barrister For Tipperary (1848)
‘French Aid’—Clap-Trap (1848)
To the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, Prime Minister of the Queen of England (1848)
To Earl of Clarendon, Her Majesty’s Detective-General, High Commissioner of Spies, and General Suborner of Ireland (1848)
To Earl of Clarendon, Her Majesty’s Executioner-General and General Butcher of Ireland (II) (1848)
To Lord Clarendon, Her Majesty’s Executioner-General, and General Butcher of Ireland (1848)
The Landlord Thugs (1848)
Ireland and the Republic (1848)
Letter from John Mitchel to James Fintan Lalor (1848)
Speech to the Irish Confederation, 5th April, 1848 (1848)
Speech to the Irish Confederation, 2nd February, 1848 (1848)
Address To The People of Limerick, 30 April, 1848. (1848)
Letter To Charles Gavan Duffy (1848)
“Sanatory Reform!” (1848)
To The Small Farmers of Ireland (1848)
Letter To Lord Clarendon (1848)
The Enemy’s Parliament: Farmers Beware! (1848)
The Pope, The Clergy, and The Flock (1848)
For Land and Life! (1848)
Waterford Election—Mr. Meagher (1848)
Letter To The Irish Confederation (1848)
Speech to the Irish Confederation, 4th February, 1848 (1848)
The United Irishman Gagged (1848)
Letter to William Smith O’Brien, October 6, 1852 (1852)
The Position and Duties of European Refugees in America (1853)
Mr. Haughton To Mr. Meagher (1854)
An Eccentric Know-Nothing: Letter to Orestes A. Brownson, LL.D. (1854)
Progress in the Nineteenth Century (1854)
To The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. (1854)
Letter to the Survivors of the Irish in Ireland Under Forty Years of Age (1854)
Prospectus Of The Citizen (1854)
England’s Difficulty (1854)
Letter To Father John Kenyon (1857)
Letter to John Blake Dillon (1860)
What The American War Is For (1861)
Letter To The Nation (1863)
Letter To Hon. Benjamin Wood (1865)
Fenians (1865)
Letter To Colonel Roberts and John Savage (1868)
Letters on Fenianism (1868)
On The Internationale (1872)
John Mitchel’s Speech to the Electors of Tipperary (1875)
John Mitchel’s Election Manifesto (1875)
Letter To The New York Herald (1875)
Final Letter To The People of Tipperary (1875)
