num_pages: 251
description: Mitchel's account of the Repeal campaign, the Famine and the 1848 Rising, which originally appeared in Mitchel's Tennessee-based newspaper, The Southern Citizen, in 1858. Mitchel was a significant and controversial figure. Last Conquest, originally written as a riposte to American Nativist hostility to Famine immigrants, is well known in Famine debates for its claim that the Famine was a deliberate act of genocide by the British government.
language: English
title: Last Conquest of Ireland
titlecomplete: Last Conquest of Ireland (Classics of Irish History)
genres: Ireland, History
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Univ College Dubli