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Record 12804

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'To my utter amazement, I had a letter to-day from Patrick O'Donohue, who has been permitted to live in the city of Hobart Town, informing me that he has established a newspaper called the "Irish Exile", enclosing me a copy of the last number, and proposing that [italics] I should join him [close italics] in the concern. ...The thing is a hideous absurdity altogether: but I am glad to learn that none of my friends takes anything to do with it; though I suppose it assumes to be a sort of "organ" for them.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: 8 Apr 1850
Country: Australia (Van Diemen's Land)
Time: evening
Place: city: Hobart Town
county: Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land)
other location: on board the "Neptune", in Hobart Town harbour
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:John Mitchel
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 3 Nov 1815
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: author, Irish Nationalist, under arrest for Treason
Religion: Presbyterian family
Country of origin: Ireland
Country of experience: Australia (Van Diemen's Land)
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Patrick O'Donohue (editor)
Title: Irish Exile
Genre: Politics, Ephemera
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
Publication details: published in Hobart Town
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 12804  
Source - Print  
  Author: John Mitchel
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Jail Journal
  Place of Publication: Dublin
  Date of Publication: 1913
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 227
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: John Mitchel, Jail Journal (Dublin, 1913), p. 227, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12804, accessed: 25 April 2024

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