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Updated: May 3, 2025
Mike Bogan knew that the worst had happened. Biddy had rushed to him and fallen across the bed; for one minute her aggravating shrieks had stopped; he began to dress himself, but he was shaking too much; he stepped out to the kitchen and faced the frightened crowd. "Is my son dead, then?" asked Mike Bogan of Bantry, with a piteous quiver of the lip, and nobody spoke.
It was a June night, a little more than two years after his return to Canaan, and the Tocsin had that day announced the approaching marriage of Eugene Bantry and his employer's daughter. Joe ate nothing during the day, and went through his work clumsily, visiting the bedroom shelf at intervals.
The Brest fleet having escaped, proceeds to the Mediterranean. English fleet at Bantry Bay. Return of the French fleet. Cæsar at Lisbon. Sir James returns to Spithead. Rejoins the Channel fleet. Earl St. Vincent takes the command. Appoints Sir James to command the advanced squadron. Black Rocks. Earl St. Vincent's letter of approbation. Douvernenez Bay. Various letters.
With the precision of the New York and Jersey City ferries the ocean steamers enter the harbors of the old and new world. On the southwestern coast of Ireland is Bantry Bay, memorable in history as having been twice entered by the French navy for the purpose of invading Ireland.
The services of Admiral Herbert at the Revolution had been rewarded with the earldom of Torrington and the command of the fleet; but his indolence suffered the seas to be swept by French privateers, and his want of seamanship was shown in an indecisive engagement with a French squadron in Bantry Bay.
"No, I'm not," he replied, plaintively. "Everybody thinks I am because I'm fat, and they expect me to do things they never dream of asking anybody else to do. I'd like to see 'em even ASK 'Gene Bantry to go and do some of the things they get me to do! A person isn't good-natured just because he's fat," he concluded, morbidly, "but he might as well be!"
The Fever Act Central Board of Health Fever Hospitals Changes in the Act Outdoor Attendance Interment of the Dead The Fever in 1846 Cork Workhouse Clonmel Tyrone Newry Sligo Leitrim Roscommon Galway Fever in 1847 Belfast Death-rate in the Workhouses Swinford Cork Dropsy Carrick-on-Shannon Macroom Bantry Abbey Dublin Cork Street Hospital Applications for Temporary Hospital accommodation Relapse a remarkable feature Number of cases received Percentage of Mortality Weekly Cost of Patients Imperfect Returns Scurvy The cause of it Emigration Earlier Schemes of Emigration Mr.
Bantry Inquests Catherine Sheehan Richard Finn Labours of the Priests Giving a dinner away Fearful number of deaths Verdict of "Wilful murder" against Lord John Russell The Workhouse at Bantry Estimated deaths The hinged coffin Shafto Adair's idea of the Famine. The year 1846 closed in gloom.
Bantry Bay, Killarney, the Mountains of Somewhere, the Waters of Somewhere else, all Irish, of course! I get so sick of Ireland and her endearing young charms and all the entreaties to Erin to remember! As if she ever forgot!" "She remembers her enemies, all right," rejoined Bill Kirby, gloomily, "but she forgets her friends!
These simple preparations concluded, Eugene sprawled comfortably upon the rug, and Mamie seated herself near him, while Ariel wandered with apparent aimlessness about the lawn, followed by the gaze of Mr. Bantry, until Miss Pike begged her, a little petulantly, to join them.
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