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[Hodges, John George]. Report of the Proceedings under the Treason Felony Act. 11 Vic., Cap. 12, at the Commission Court, Green-Street, Dublin, August and October, 1848. Dublin: Alexander Thom, 1848. Pp vii, 783. Thick 8vo. Original quarter cloth paper boards, title label to spine. Boards worn and faded. Contents very good throughout. The bulk of the text deals with the trials of Kevin Izod Dogherty and John Martin Some preliminary reference is made to Charles Gavan Duffy, Denis Hoban, Richard d'Alton Williams and Henry Shaw Kevin Izod O'Doherty was born in Dublin on 7 September 1823 O'Doherty received a good education and studied medicine, but before he was qualified, joined the Young Ireland party and in June 1848 established the Irish Tribune. Only five editions were issued, and on 10 July 1848, O'Doherty was arrested and charged with treason-felony. At the first and second trials the juries disagreed, but at the third trial he was found guilty and sentenced to transportation for 10 years. He received an unconditional pardon in 1856, and completed his studies in Dublin, graduating in 1857. He practiced in Dublin successfully, and in 1862 went to Brisbane, Australia and became well-known as one of its leading physicians. He served as a member of the Queensland legislature in Australia and later on his return to Ireland as an Irish M.P. John Martin was born into a landed Presbyterian family in Newry Co. Down. In 1847 he was moved by the Famine to join Mitchel in the Repeal Association but subsequently left it with Mitchel. He contributed to Mitchel's journal 'The United Irishman,' and then following Mitchel's arrest on 27 May 1848, Martin continued with his own anti-British journal, 'The Irish Felon' and established 'The Felon Club'. This led to a warrant for his arrest, and he turned himself in on 8 July 1848. Martin was sentenced on 18 August 1848 to 10 years transportation to Van Diemen's Land. Martin arrived on the Elphinstone with Kevin Izod O'Doherty in Hobart, Tasmania in November 1849. He accepted a 'ticket of leave' which allowed him to live in relative freedom at Bothwell provided he promised not to escape. While in Tasmania Martin continued to meet in secret with his fellow exiles Kevin Izod O'Doherty, Thomas Francis Meagher and John Mitchel. He chose not to join Mitchel when Mitchel revoked his ticket of leave and escaped. Instead he remained in Tasmania until he was granted a 'conditional pardon' in 1854. This allowed him to leave for Paris, and he returned to Ireland on being granted a full pardon in 1856. he later became a Home Rule M.P. The Young Ireland movement which attracted journalists, barristers, historians and poets was initiated by the Protestant intellectual, Thomas Davis and comprised some of the most brilliant names in modern Irish history. The Young Irelanders were influenced by the interdenominational ideals of Wolfe Tone and the United Irishmen of the 1790s. The leader of the Young Irelanders in 1848 was William Smith O'Brien, Member of Parliament for Co. Limerick. 1848 was a year of revolutions throughout continental Europe. The Young Irelanders were deeply influenced by these events and the success of liberal, romantic nationalism on the European mainland inspired the movement to contemplate revolution in Ireland. The movement prepared for a Rising in autumn 1848. The government, however, forced their hand on 22 July 1848 by announcing the suspension of Habeas Corpus which meant that the Young Irelanders could be imprisoned on proclamation without trial. O'Brien decided that rather than let the government arrest the leaders of Young Ireland a stand had to be made. However the rising was a failure and afterwards its principal organisers William Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher, Terence Bellew MacManus and Patrick O'Donohue were captured and tried for high treason. Juries found them guilty and they were sentenced to death by hanging, drawing and quartering. The sentences were, however, c