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Speeches from the Dock; Or, Protests of Irish Patriotism. Part I Speeches delivered after conviction by Theobald Wolfe Tone, William Orr, the brothers Sheares, Robert Emmet, John Martin, William Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher, Terence Bellew McManus, John Mitchel, Thomas C. Luby, John O'Leary, Charles J. Kickham, Colonel Thomas F. Burke, and Captain Mackay

Sullivan, T. D. (Timothy Daniel), 1827-1914 [Commentator]; Sullivan, A. M. (Alexander Martin), 1830-1884 [Commentator]; Sullivan, D. B. (Denis Baylor), -1909 [Commentator]· 2 chapters· 33,484 words

lords, with a free heart and a light conscience, to abide the issue of your sentence. And now, my lords, this is, perhaps, the fittest time to put a sentence upon record, which is this--that standing in this dock, and called to ascend the scaffold--it may be to-morrow--it may...

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1. part I may have acted in my short career, I stand before you, my

lords, with a free heart and a light conscience, to abide the issue of your sentence. And now, my lords, this is, perhaps, the fittest time to put a sentence upon record, which...

2. part I have taken in the late insurrection, I feel conscious that I

was doing right. Next to serving his Creator, I believe it is a man's solemn duty to serve his country. [Here the prisoner paused to suppress his emotion, which rendered his utt...