COLONEL THOMAS KELLY, CAPTAIN TIMOTHY DEASY.--Rescued from Prison
Van in Manchester.

CAPTAIN EDWARD O'MEAGHER-CONDON.--Sentenced to death for the
Manchester Rescues, but reprieved and sent to Penal
Servitude--Returned to America.

CAPTAIN MURPHY.--Returned to America. Died a few years since.

THE SCHOOLMASTER.--A Member of Parliament.

JOHN RYAN.--Dead--God rest his soul.




CHAPTER VIII.

A DIGRESSION--T.D. SULLIVAN--A NATIONAL ANTHEM--THE EMERALD
MINSTRELS--"THE SPIRIT OF THE NATION."


If it were for nothing else, it will be sufficient fame for T.D.
Sullivan for all time that he is the author of "God Save Ireland." He
had no idea himself, as he used to tell me, that the anthem would have
been taken up so instantaneously and enthusiastically as it was.

A National Anthem can never be made to order. It must grow spontaneously
out of some stirring incident of the hour. Never in those days were our
people so deeply moved as by the Manchester Martyrdom. There is no