Excerpt from Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism, Vol. 2 of 2 The Second Rotunda meeting was held, then, a week after the first, but it was only by a fugou de parlor that it could be called a public one. People were admitted only by ticket, and after very careful scrutiny of the ticket too, and, while the meeting was a picked and selected body of some hundreds, all the approaches to the meeting were lined by thousands of highly hostile spectators, held in check by a large force of police, so that, as I said at the time, The o'donoghue and his esteemed friend, Mr. Sullivan, fought their way to fame. 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.

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