[Footnote 18:  Hercules Street in Belfast, now swept away, was chiefly inhabited by butchers who were almost all Catholics and fervent O’Connellites.  When the Young Irelanders attempted to hold a meeting in Belfast shortly after O’Connell’s death, the butchers made a fierce attack upon them.]

[Footnote 19:  This narrative was written at the beginning of 1850]

[Footnote 20:  Law Agent to the Dublin Corporation.]

[Footnote 21:  Patrick Joseph Smyth]

[Footnote 22:  Sub-editor of the Nation; afterwards a clergyman.]

CONTEMPORARIES MENTIONED IN “THE FELON’S TRACK”

ANGLESEY, LORD (1768-1854).—­Henry William Paget, who lost a leg at Waterloo and erected a monument to its memory.  Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1828-9, 1830-3.

ANTISELL, DR. THOMAS.—­A Dublin surgeon and chemist of distinction, author of various pamphlets and addresses to the Royal Dublin Society on the geology of Ireland, reafforestation, and the sanitary conditions of Irish town-life.  He supplied a large part of the capital to found the Irish Tribune.  After the failure of the insurrection he went to the United States where he had a distinguished scientific career.

BANTRY, LORD.—­(1801-1884) William Hare White, third earl, Lieut-Col, of the West Cork Artillery.  The title became extinct in 1891.

BARRY, MICHAEL JOSEPH (1817-1889).—­A Cork barrister, editor of “The Songs of Ireland” in the Library of Ireland, and author of several martial pieces, including “The Flag of Green.”  After the failure of the insurrection he renounced Nationalism and subsequently became a Dublin Police Magistrate.

BARRETT, RICHARD (17—­ -1855).—­Brother of Eaton Stannard Barrett of Cork, the once famous author of “All the Talents.”  A journalist of fortune who changed sides with agility and enlisted under O’Connell in his latter years, having formerly vilified him.

BRENAN, JOSEPH (1828-1857).—­The youngest of the Young Ireland leaders.  Edited Fullam’s Irishman in 1849 and unsuccessfully attempted to revive the insurrection in Waterford and Tipperary.  On his failure he emigrated to the United States and died in New Orleans.

BRODERICK, CAPTAIN.—­Inspector-General of Repeal Reading Rooms.  He quitted Conciliation Hall after the death of O’Connell and died mentally afflicted.

BRYAN, MAJOR.—­Of Raheny Lodge, Co.  Dublin.  Major Bryan acquired a moderate fortune in Tasmania and returned to Ireland where he joined the Repeal movement.  He left Conciliation Hall with the Young Irelanders.

CAMPBELL, SIR JOHN (1779-1861).—­Author of the “Lives of the Lord Chancellors.”  A Scots Tory politician, raised to the peerage subsequent to his connection with Ireland, and finally Lord Chancellor of England.

CANGLEY, DAVID (18—­ -1847).—­A barrister and one of the hopes of Young Ireland.  Ill-health pursued him through life and ended it prematurely.