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)
The Life and Times of Aodh O’Neill, Prince of Ulster
John Mitchel on “Gaelic Ireland.”
Mitchel’s Letter to Lord John Russell on the Treason Felony Bill
The Sorrows of an Irish Landlord (1843)
The English Government and the Irish Presbyterians (1843)
The Anti-Irish Catholics (1843)
The People’s Food (1845)
The Oregon―Ireland. (1845)
Threats of Coercion (1845)
The Detectives (1845)
Beware of the Whigs (1846)
Political Economy For Ireland (1846)
Speech on the Peace Resolutions (1846)
“English Rule.” (1846)
Famine (1846)
Review of Carlyle’s “Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches” (1846)
Preface to ‘Irish Political Economy’ (1847)
More Alms For The “Destitute Irish” (1847)
To the Surplus Population of Ireland (1847)
Next Year’s Famine (1847)
The Famine Year (1847)
Speech to the Irish Confederation, 2nd February, 1848 (1848)
On the Office and Duty of Jurors Trying ‘Political Offences’ in Ireland (1848)
The United Irishman Gagged (1848)
Ireland and the Republic (1848)
Address to the Citizens of Dublin (1848)
To Mr. Sergeant Howley, Assistant-Barrister For Tipperary (1848)
‘French Aid’—Clap-Trap (1848)
The Landlord Thugs (1848)
Speech to the Irish Confederation, 5th April, 1848 (1848)
Address To The People of Limerick, 30 April, 1848. (1848)
“Sanatory Reform!” (1848)
Waterford Election—Mr. Meagher (1848)
To The Secretary of the St. Patrick’s Confederate Club (1848)
Speech to the Irish Confederation, 4th February, 1848 (1848)
Letter To The Irish Confederation (1848)
For Land and Life! (1848)
The Pope, The Clergy, and The Flock (1848)
The Enemy’s Parliament: Farmers Beware! (1848)
Letter To Charles Gavan Duffy (1848)
Prospectus of The United Irishman (1848)
Speech From The Dock (1848)
Letter from John Mitchel to James Fintan Lalor (1848)
John Mitchel’s Petition To The Houses of Parliament (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)
To Lord Clarendon, Her Majesty’s Ameliorator-General and General Developer of Ireland (1848)
To The Small Farmers of Ireland (1848)
Letter To Lord Clarendon (1848)
Letter to William Smith O’Brien, October 6, 1852 (1852)
The Position and Duties of European Refugees in America (1853)
England’s Difficulty (1854)
An Eccentric Know-Nothing: Letter to Orestes A. Brownson, LL.D. (1854)
Progress in the Nineteenth Century (1854)
Letter to the Survivors of the Irish in Ireland Under Forty Years of Age (1854)
To The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. (1854)
Prospectus Of The Citizen (1854)
Mr. Haughton To Mr. Meagher (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)
Fenians (1865)
Letter To Hon. Benjamin Wood (1865)
Letters on Fenianism (1868)
Letter To Colonel Roberts and John Savage (1868)
On The Internationale (1872)
Final Letter To The People of Tipperary (1875)
Letter To The New York Herald (1875)
John Mitchel’s Election Manifesto (1875)
John Mitchel’s Speech to the Electors of Tipperary (1875)
