Download or read book Speeches from the Dock; Or, Protests of Irish Patriotism, Part I (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) written by Various and published by . This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes speeches by Theobald Wolfe Tone, William Orr, The Brothers Sheares, Robert Emmet, John Martin (1848), William Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher, Terence Bellew Mcmanus, John Mitchel, Thomas C. Luby, John O'Leary, Charles J. Kickham, Colonel Thomas F. Burke and Captain Mackay. "To the lovers of Ireland-to those who sympathize with her sufferings and resent her wrongs, there can be few things more interesting than the history of the struggles which sprang from devotion to her cause, and were consecrated by the blood of her patriots. The efforts of the Irish race to burst the fetters that foreign force and native dissensions imposed on them, and elevate their country from bondage and degradation to a place amongst free nations, fill a page in the world's history which no lover of freedom can read without emotion, and which must excite wonder, admiration, and regret in the mind of every man with whom patriotism is not a reproach, and who can sympathize with a cause ennobled by fidelity and sacrifice, and sanctified by the blood and tears of a nation. "