The Man from God Knows Where
Subtitle: Thomas Russell 1767-1803
Publisher: Columba Press
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781856071307
Subjects: Biography: general; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Religion; Biography / Autobiography; Ireland; General; Russell, Thomas; History
Description: Thomas Russell, one of Wolfe Tone's closest friends, co-founded the Society of United Irishmen both in Belfast and Dublin. This book gives a fascinating glimpse of the years when the United Irishmen became a mass-based organisation. Increasing cooperation between Catholics, Protestants and Dissenters is traced as Russell forwarded the cause of unity through political and organisational endeavor. People began to recognize that their divisions perpetuated their own oppression. Russell's long detention in Newgate, his prison correspondence, and his internment in Scotland, are also discussed. After his release in 1802, he joined Irish emigres in Paris. In 1803, his participation in Emmet's rising led to his arrest and execution in Downpatrick. -- Publisher description