| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | '28th - Sunday morning. A bright morning but no land in sight. Found the "United Irishman" of yesterday in my cabin. T... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | United Irishman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Drew my chair to the door, sat down in the sun, and spent an hour or two in reading the "Merry Wives of Windsor". Tha... | John Mitchel | William Shakespeare | Merry Wives of Windsor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The routine of the "Scourge" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource ... | John Mitchel | Richard Henry Dana | Two years before the mast | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The routine of the "Scourge" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource ... | John Mitchel | Mary Schweidler | The Amber Witch | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Reading - for want of something better - "Macaulay's Essays". He is a born Edinburgh Reviewer, this Macaulay; and, in... | John Mitchel | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After breakfast, when the sun burned too fiercely on deck, went below, threw off coat and waistcoat for coolness, and... | John Mitchel | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Essays [on Bacon] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Steamer from Southampton docked at Bermuda, bringing English newspapers up to date of 2nd June:
'Our second lieutenan... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The chaplain had left me about half an hour, and I was sitting at an open window reading Livy and drinking grog, begi... | John Mitchel | Livy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Here I have been reading an account of Abyssinia, being a volume of the "Family Library", wherein you travel one stag... | John Mitchel | [unknown] | [Abyssinia] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: "Palestine", edited by Dr Russell, and "Persia", by Frazer, I have als... | John Mitchel | Russell (ed.) | [Palestine] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: "Palestine", edited by Dr Russell, and "Persia", by Frazer, I have als... | John Mitchel | Frazer (ed.) | [Persia] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee... | John Mitchel | Dean Swift | [Captain Crichton's autobiography] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee... | John Mitchel | William Gifford | [autobiography] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee... | John Mitchel | Thomas Elwood | [autobiography] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee... | John Mitchel | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find... | John Mitchel | Alexandre Dumas | Three Mousequetaires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find... | John Mitchel | Alexandre Dumas | Marquis de Letoriere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find... | John Mitchel | William Harrison Ainsworth | Windsor Castle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find... | John Mitchel | Douglas Jerrold | St Giles and St James | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This evening, after dusk, as I sat at my window, looking drearily out on the darkening waters, something was thrown f... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [London newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of the state of public opinion in Ireland, and the spirit shown by the surviving organs thereof, I have but this indi... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Freeman's Journal | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have ... | John Mitchel | Madame Pichler | [Siege of Vienna] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have ... | John Mitchel | [George] [Allan?] | [biography of Walter Scott] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have ... | John Mitchel | Dr Memes [pseud?] | [Life of William Cowper] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And have I read no books, then, save bad ones? That I have. Amongst those sent to me from home is an old Dublin copy ... | John Mitchel | Francois Rabelais | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And have I read no books, then, save bad ones? That I have. Amongst those sent to me from home is an old Dublin copy ... | John Mitchel | Claudius Galen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dial... | John Mitchel | William Shakespeare | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dial... | John Mitchel | Plato | Dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dial... | John Mitchel | Aristotle? | Politeia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'One of the last books I have laid hands on is Lieutenant Burnes's (afterwards Sir Alexander Burnes) "Journey through ... | John Mitchel | Sir Alexander Burnes | [Journey through Bokhara and Voyage up the Indus] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Several newspapers have come to hand; also "Blackwood's Magazine" for October. "Blackwood" has a long article on Iris... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Several newspapers have come to hand; also "Blackwood's Magazine" for October. "Blackwood" has a long article on Iris... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Antony and Cleopatra".' | John Mitchel | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Get on but slowly with my translation of the "Politeia": and nearly repent that I began it; for I lack the energy and... | John Mitchel | Aristotle? | Politeia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dawdling over Keightley's history of the war in Greece, compiled out of all the newspapers and all the memoirs. Full ... | John Mitchel | Thomas Keightley | History of the War of Independence in Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Then I have been turning lazily over the pages of a certain "magazine" called the "Saturday Magazine", which the wort... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Saturday Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tired to death of reading books - at least all books of an instructive sort - and have now been devouring (for about ... | John Mitchel | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tired to death of reading books - at least all books of an instructive sort - and have now been devouring (for about ... | John Mitchel | Walter Scott | The Heart of the Mid-Lothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have been reading in "Tait's Magazine" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, M... | John Mitchel | [uknown] | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine [review of Macaulay's History of England] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have been reading in "Tait's Magazine" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, M... | John Mitchel | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just been gratified (no matter how or by whom) with a sight of some newspapers, which announce, among other th... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Doctor has sent into my cabin a "Daily News", which came by the mail on Sunday' [general discussion of its conten... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Daily News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | '27th - I have just had a visit from two American ship-captains, whose vessels lie here. They approached me most rever... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Freeman's Journal | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The enemy thinks I am dead. In a parliamentary report in one of the papers, I read that the Home Secretary, replying ... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have got Cape newspapers for the last two months, and have been reading of the proceedings of the various anti-conv... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'A ship has arrived from England, but does not carry our destiny. Two weekly newspapers. News from Europe up to the 11... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have been reading the "Quarterly Review" on Lyell's tour in North America. The "Quarterly" rejoices, quite generously... | John Mitchel | [unknown] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have seen extracts from the new "Nation". Mr Duffy can hardly find words for his disgust, his contempt, "his utter ... | John Mitchel | [Duffy] | Nation | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have seen extracts from the new "Nation". Mr Duffy can hardly find words for his disgust, his contempt, "his utter ... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Cork "Southern Reporter" echoes the new "Nation", and even tries to go beyond it in treason. Mr Barry quarrels wi... | John Mitchel | [Barry] | Southern Reporter | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'One number of the "Irishman" has come to my hands: it is published at No. 4 D'Olier Street, and by Fulham; and the ed... | John Mitchel | Joseph Brennan (ed) | Irishman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'But from yesterday's "Commercial Advertiser" I will copy two letters, the reading of which and the consultation there... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Commercial Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Cape papers give extracts from the Van Diemen's Land papers, by which I find that O'Brien, Meagher, O'Donoghue, a... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [Newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have seen some English papers: this Cape affair has caused wonderful excitement and indignation: a horrid insult ha... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | The Times [and other English newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have got the Cape newspapers, with their advertising columns full of "the Dinner", "the Illuminations", in large ca... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Some Hobart Town newspapers have come on board. O'Brien is still in very close confinement on an island off the east ... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'To my utter amazement, I had a letter to-day from Patrick O'Donohue, who has been permitted to live in the city of Ho... | John Mitchel | Patrick O'Donohue (editor) | Irish Exile | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'When the circumstances of my arrest came to be known, some of the newspapers commented severely on the harshness of t... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Colonial Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday I saw in one of the Van Diemen's Land papers, an extract from some London periodical, in which, as usual, g... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |