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Charles Joseph Kickham (1828-82), novelist and Fenian, was born in Co. Tipperary, the son of a prosperous shopkeeper. Despite being permanently deafened and partially blinded by an accident with gunpowder at the age of thirteen, he took an active part in politics, at first as a Young Irelander and, from 1860, as a Fenian. In 1864 he formed, with John O'Leary and T.C.Luby, the three-man Executive which directed the Fenian movement. They were all arrested in 1865. Kickham was sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude, but released after four years because of ill-health. Subsequently he published his best-known novel, Knocknagow, a series of detailed pictures of Tipperary life, in which the Land Question is a major theme. Yeats described Kickham as the 'most rambling and yet withal most vivid, humorous, and most sincere of Irish novelists', and Stephen Brown thought Knocknagow 'one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all Irish novels.'
Excerpt from Knocknagow, or the Homes of Tipperary He was very fond of little children, and knew how to win their hearts. It delighted him, says one Of his best friends, when the little ones tried to talk to him on their fingers; and he was most patient in teaching them, taking particular care not to allow them to speak incorrectly. Children who loved him, were playing about his feet in the sunshine when the stroke of paralysis came upon him at the last. There was much of what is best in woman and in child in his nature; and it was impossible, says another devoted young friend, to know him well without feeling that he was trustful, and kindly, and sympathetic as a woman. His slender hand was fashioned like a woman's, too. There was a great deal of silky grey hair in curls about his head, which was finely shaped; and he was very tall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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