Note: edited and introduced by C.W. Sullivan
Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Fenian Diary : Denis B Cashman on Board the Hougoumont
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"The emphasis in this book is on the voyage out to Western Australia and the ways in which Cashman used the genre of the diary to deal with his personal adjustments to being a political prisoner... Sullivan also discusses Cashman's verse and song writing, as well as the similar compositions of other Fenians who between them developed a ship's newspaper ... named The Wild Goose... [The] diary and accompanying materials provide an insight into the attitudes and lives of the period, especially in relation to life aboard a convict ship." (Graham Seal, JAS Review of Books no. 20 November 2003)

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Dublin, Dublin (County),
      c
      Ireland,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Wolfhound Press ,
      2001 .
      Extent: 191p.
      Description: illus., bibl.
      ISBN: 0863278582

Works about this Work

[Review] Fenian Diary : Denis B Cashman on Board the Hougoumont Graham Seal , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , November no. 20 2003;

— Review of Fenian Diary : Denis B Cashman on Board the Hougoumont D. B. Cashman , 2001 single work diary
Convict Ship Newspaper, The Wild Goose, Re-Discovered Walter McGrath , 1969 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society , vol. 74 no. 1969; (p. 20-31)

Walter McGrath examines documents produced during the voyage of the convict ship the Hougoumont. The ship carried 62 Fenians including some with a literary bent. The documents examined are Denis B. Cashman's Fenian Diary and the hand-written periodical The Wild Goose: A Collection of Ocean Waifs.

McGrath provides details on some of the Wild Goose contributors, particularly the convicted Fenians John Edward 'Ned' Kelly, John Flood and J. B. O'Reilly, and the ship's chaplain Father Bernard Delaney. Some of Kelly's, Flood's and O'Reilly's Wild Goose poetry is re-published in the article.

[Review] Fenian Diary : Denis B Cashman on Board the Hougoumont Graham Seal , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , November no. 20 2003;

— Review of Fenian Diary : Denis B Cashman on Board the Hougoumont D. B. Cashman , 2001 single work diary
Convict Ship Newspaper, The Wild Goose, Re-Discovered Walter McGrath , 1969 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society , vol. 74 no. 1969; (p. 20-31)

Walter McGrath examines documents produced during the voyage of the convict ship the Hougoumont. The ship carried 62 Fenians including some with a literary bent. The documents examined are Denis B. Cashman's Fenian Diary and the hand-written periodical The Wild Goose: A Collection of Ocean Waifs.

McGrath provides details on some of the Wild Goose contributors, particularly the convicted Fenians John Edward 'Ned' Kelly, John Flood and J. B. O'Reilly, and the ship's chaplain Father Bernard Delaney. Some of Kelly's, Flood's and O'Reilly's Wild Goose poetry is re-published in the article.

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