Kilmainham Memories: Crime Of The Century

Title : Kilmainham Memories: The Story Of The Greatest Political Crime Of The Century, With Many New And Important Details  
Author : Tighe Hopkins
Source : Windsor Magazine
Year Published : 1900
Page Count : 26
Image Count : 40
Word Count : 14,188
File Size in MB : 14.8
File Type : PDF

"It was in December 1881 that the plot was hatched. The prime movers in it formed a small inner circle of the I.E.B., or Irish Republican Brotherhood. Several of them were old Fenians, and all were rebels. These men may be dismissed briefly and with a contempt which halts in the utterance. A viler set of craven conspirators never escaped the halter. It was they who in secret laid the first plans aud found other creatures who were to have the working of them. When all was done they crawled one by one out of the country and left their victims to pay the score on the gallows or in the ..."