Heart of Exile: Ireland, 1848, and the Seven Patriots Banished: Their Adventures, Loneliness and Loves in Three Continents As They Search for Refuge by Patsy Adam-Smith

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Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with all external stickers removed. Wear to book corners and edges. Marks on book foredges. Date due slip, stamps and stickers and borrower card pocket on inside pages. Dust jacket has creasing at edges and at spine, with a small tear at spine top. Enclosed in protective plastic covering. Text and binding are in very good condition.

In 1848, at the height of the Irish famine, seven Irishmen led a nationalist uprising for self-rule. They were sentenced to death; however, they were well-connected and members of the educated class and their sentences were commuted to banishment to Van Diemen's Land, as gentlemen exiles rather than convicts.

Patsy Adam-Smith tells their stories.