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  A Brief Biography of John Martin
"John Martin was a man of high character, gentle and retiring in disposition, charitable to the poor and kind to his tenants, a great lover of books, a good linguist, patriotic, tolerant in his views and impatient of injustice.
Mitchel was the first one convicted under the new Act for his editorials in his newspaper "The United Irishman." He was convicted by a "packed" jury of British loyalists.
In 1868, the mild, gentle John Martin married the youngest sister of John Mitchel, Henrietta.
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  Ireland -- The Wild Geese Today
John Mitchel, the Derry-born son of a Presbyterian minister, was as fervent an enemy of English rule in Ireland as ever breathed.
John, son of a Presbyterian minister and true to his Ulster Presbyterian republican heritage, was born in Comnish, County Derry, on Nov. 3, 1815.
Mitchel is best known for his mind and his steely determination to press the case for Irish independence, for his in-your-face republicanism.
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 Famous Irish Lives - John Mitchel
Mitchel was born at Camnish, near Dungiven, Co Londonderry, on 3 November 1815.
It openly preached sedition to 'that numerous and respectable class of the community, the men of no property', and in May 1848 Mitchel was convicted of treason felony and sentenced to fourteen years' transportation.
Mitchel launched several newspapers in America, and as editor of the Richmond Examiner championed slavery; he was imprisoned for several months after the Civil War ended.
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 The Wild Geese Today -- Private Willie Mitchel:An Irish Confederate Boy
Willie Mitchel and his father vacated Paris in the autumn of 1862, John to become an editor on the staffs of two Richmond newspapers, Willie to join the 1st Virginia where his older brother, James was serving.
Jennie Mitchel was destined to survive all but Captain James Mitchel, the Mitchel's daughter lies in a Paris convent yard, a convert to the Roman church.
John Mitchel was jailed by the Federal government for a time after the war, then returned to Ireland.
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 JOHN PURROY MITCHEL MONUMENT - Historical Sign
This granite and bronze piece honors John Purroy Mitchel (1879—1918), who, as mayor of New York from 1914 to 1917, was known for his uncompromising idealism and scrupulous honesty.
Mitchel was born and raised in an Irish Catholic family in the Fordham section of the Bronx.
The younger Mitchel rose to prominence in 1906, just five years after his graduation from New York Law School, for investigating Manhattan Borough President John F. Ahern and Bronx Borough President Louis Haffen; both were removed from office as a result of the investigation.
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 Mitchel, John (1815 - 1875) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
MITCHEL, JOHN (1815-1875), Irish nationalist, was born on 3 November 1815 at Camnish, near Dungiven, County Derry, Ireland, the third son of Rev. John Mitchel, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife Mary, née Haslett.
Mitchel was first committed to the hulks in Bermuda, and later sent to the Cape of Good Hope in the Neptune.
Mitchel, though the first to be sentenced, was thus the last of the Young Ireland leaders to reach Van Diemen's Land.
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  John Mitchel's Escape from Van Diemen's Land - Old Tales of a Young Country - Marcus Clarke, Book, etext
John Mitchel, originally an attorney practising in the north of Ireland, had by some writings of his attracted the attention of the editor of the Nation, who invited him to Dublin, and placed him on the staff of that journal.
Mitchel suggests that the four should place themselves in such a position as to be arrested all together, and then rescue themselves by force of arms, or that the parole should be simultaneously withdrawn at all the police offices; but this notion is overruled.
Mitchel was to go to the police-office at Bothwell, accompanied by Nicaragua and five others, all armed, and having delivered up his parole, gallop on his new horse midway to Spring Bay, where a relay would be provided, and reach the shore by midnight.
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  John Mitchel - Articles about India
John Mitchel and his family were to spend the next five years living in Banbridge, and the domestic life was says his biographer William Dillon, both “peaceful and happy.” During this period two more of his children were born, Henrietta in the month of October, 1842, and William in the May of 1844.
Mitchel's radicalism was too extreme for the newspaper and led to the prosecution of the paper's editor, Charles Gavan Duffy, for seditious libel, of which the paper was cleared.
Mitchel returned to Ireland where in 1875 he was elected in a by-election to be an MP in the British parliament representing the Tipperary constituency.
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  John Mitchel - The Encyclopedia
Mitchel's radicalism was too extreme for the newspaper and led to the prosecution of the paper's editor, Charles Gavan Duffy, for seditious libel, of which the paper was cleared.
Mitchel resigned from the paper and toured as a spokesman for the south, founding a new paper, the Southern Citizen as a spokesperson for the cause in the south, and was the first to point out that slavery and abolition were not the cause of the conflict but simply used as a pretence.
Mitchel returned to Ireland where in 1875 he was elected in a by-election to be an MP in the British parliament representing the Tipperary constituency.
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 John Mitchel - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Mitchel was born in Camnish, near Dungiven, County Londonderry, a son of John Mitchel, a radical Presbyterian minister with strong Unitarian sympathies, and his wife Mary Haslet.
Mitchel's radicalism was too extreme for the newspaper and led to the prosecution of the paper's editor, Charles Gavan Duffy, for seditious libel.
Mitchel, a critic of international capitalism, which he blamed for the Great Hunger, saw the Southern states' economies with their reliance on slavery, as offering an alternative form of economic and social organisation to the form of international capitalism he despised.
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 John Mitchel   (Site not responding. Last check: )
John Mitchel (3 November 1815 - 20 March 1875) was an Irish nationalist activist and political journalist, who also became a public voice the pro- slavery viewpoint in the United States in the 1850s and 1860s before ending up elected to the British House of Commons, only to be disqualified due being a convicted felon.
Mitchel was born in Camnish, County Derry in 1815.
Mitchel's radicalism was too extreme for the newspaper and led to the prosecution of the paper's editor, Charles Gavin Duffy for seditious libel.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: John Mitchel   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mitchell County is a county located in the state of Iowa.
Mitchel was born at Camnish, near Dungiven, Co Londonderry, on 3 November 1815.
Mitchel launched several newspapers in America, and as editor of the Richmond Examiner championed slavery; he was imprisoned for several months after the Civil War ended.
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 John Mitchel Time Line
John Mitchell is mentioned as holding the office of Steward for the Society of Cincinnati.
John Mitchell, a native of Ireland and an officer of the American Army in the War of the Revolution established "The New Age Magazine on May 31, 1801.
John Mitchell Perfect Sovereign of the Rose Croix Chapter in Charleston and President of the Council of Princes of Jerusalem and Grand Commander of the Grand Consistory.
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 John Mitchel and the rejection of the nineteenth century. | Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies (September, 2003)
Mitchel was one of the key personalities in the Young Ireland movement, becoming the main contributor to the Nation newspaper in 1845 after the death of its founder Thomas Davis.
Mitchel responded with an article in the Nation which described how easily troop trains could be ambushed, and suggested that iron rails and wooden sleepers would provide excellent material for the manufacture of pikes.
Mitchel argued that it was Ireland that had been the main victim of Britain's inflexible application of the laws of laissezfaire political economy.
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 §24. Later writers. IX. Anglo-Irish Literature. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge History of ...
John D’Alton was a principal contributor to Hardiman’s Irish Minstrelsy, and, in 1814, published Dermid or Erin in the days of Boroimha, a metrical romance in twelve cantos, written in smooth verse and showing a real knowledge of the times described, for he was an antiquary of note.
Mitchel was a writer who showed undoubted genius when the fit was on him; but much of his work, in his History of Ireland, is slovenly and not a little even of the Jail Journal is rhetorical and long drawn out.
John Francis O’Donnell drifted from the south of Ireland to London, where, for a while, he was editor of The Tablet, and his verse contributions were welcomed by Dickens to his magazines.
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 SEARC'S WEB GUIDE - John Mitchel (1815-1875)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
John Mitchel was born in Dungiven, County Derry.
Mitchel was charged with publishing 'treasonous' articles and was sentenced to fourteen years penal servitude in 1848.
Mitchel's release was effected by the Irish Republican Brotherhood and he spent the duration of the American Civil War in Virginia.
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 John Mitchel - HighBeam Encyclopedia
A practicing lawyer, Mitchel contributed articles to the Nation (Dublin) and the United Irishman, which he founded in 1848, calling for rebellion against Britain.
John Mitchel and the rejection of the nineteenth century.
Washington, D.C. John MITCHEL, Attorney General of the Nixon Administration, testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee.
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 Metro Pulse/Secret History/John Mitchel
Mitchel arrived in town in early 1855, a turning point for him and for Knoxville, as the prospect of a railroad promised to boost the town from a shabby leftover of frontier days into something like a real city.
Mitchel was taken aback by the anti-Catholic, anti-Irish sentiment he found everywhere in America—a new hatred, for the most part, a reaction to the massive Irish immigration.
Mitchel built a large house on the northeast corner of town, long before the neighborhood was known as Irish Town, in a tree-shaded area on the shores of First Creek.
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 NTU Info Centre: John Mitchel   (Site not responding. Last check: )
'''John Mitchel''' ([[3 November]] [[1815]] - [[20 March]] [[1875]]) was an [[IrelandIrish]] nationalist activist and political journalist, and also became a public voice the pro-[[slavery]] viewpoint in the [[United States]] in the [[1850s]] and [[1860s]] before ending up elected to the [[British House of Commons]], only to be disqualified due being a convicted felon.
==Deportation and the Jail Journal== Mitchel's radicalism was too extreme for the newspaper and led to the prosecution of the paper's editor, [[Charles Gavan Duffy]] for seditious libel.
==Pro-slavery campaigner in the United States== Mitchel escaped from the colony in [[1853]] and established the radical Irish nationalist newspaper ''[[The Citizen]]'' in [[New York]], as an expression of radical [[Irish-American]] anti-British opinion.
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 John Mitchel . County Down . Charles Stewart Parnell   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mitchel s radicalism was too extreme for the newspaper and led to the prosecution of the paper s editor, Charles Gavan Duffy for seditious libel.
In 1848 Mitchel set up his own newspaper, the United Irishman newspaper United Irishman, where he called for rebellion against British rule in Ireland and criticised British mismanagement of the Irish Potato Famine.
Mitchel s calls led to a charge of sedition.
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 Mitchel John: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
John Ettlinger is most thankful to Martha Mitchell of the library's Department of Archives.
John Mitchel and the Rejection of the Nineteenth Century...future of humanity, the Young Irelander John Mitchel retorted that, on the contrary, he did...March 1866, in William Dillon, Life of John Mitchel (London, 2 vols., 1888), II, 243.
Mitchel was a gifted writer, a...was the extraordinary John Boyle OReilly, an Irishman...unlike the pro-Confederate Mitchel made a connection between...
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 Irish Echo Online - Arts
John Mitchel was born in 1815 in Camnish, County Derry.
Mitchel spent five years in the prison colony before fellow nationalists engineered a sensational rescue in 1853.
It is also likely that Mitchel, a romantic nationalist if there ever was one, was captivated by the romanticism of southern nationalism and its self-depiction of the South as a besieged underdog.
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 Loughorne Times
The famous John Mitchel often lay on its banks, with his children playing and rolling over him.
John Purroy Mitchel became Mayor of New York in 1912.
Her husband the patriot John Mitchel rets far away in the "Old Meeting House Green" in Newry, Co.Down about 5 miles form Loughorne.
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 John Mitchel — Infoplease.com
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John Mitchel and the rejection of the nineteenth century.
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 John Mitchel, Jail Journal, 2nd ed., 1914: Wholly Genes
Described as 'a classic of Irish revolutionary writing', John Mitchel's Jail Journal was first published in the New York Citizen, the journal established by Mitchel on his arrival in America, between 14th January and 19th August 1854.
A subsequent edition of the Jail Journal was published in which Mitchel detailed his experiences in the United States between 1853 and 1866, the current CD-Rom publication contains both.
Throughout, the Jail Journal is replete with Mitchel's acerbic wit and anecdote detailing his prison experiences, transportation for Treason Felony and later reminiscences on his erstwhile colleagues.
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