A CHRONICLE OF JAILS
DARRELL FIGGIS
“Jail Journals are always a fascinatingstudy. The self-recordedthoughts and impressions of manforcibly isolated from his fellowsin the solitude of the jail have acertain interest which is hard to explain.This is the case even whenthe recorder is a criminal. Butwhen, as in the present instance,the individual is a highly cultured‘political felon’ making his firstacquaintance with the means andmethods which twentieth centurycivilisation has provided for the reformationof those who transgressits laws, then, indeed, we have insuch a one’s ‘Jail Journal’ somethingof surpassing interest.”—Mac.
THIRD EDITION
DUBLIN: THE TALBOT PRESS LTD.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
POETRY
- A Vision of Life (1909)
- The Crucibles of Time (1911)
- Queen Tara: A Tragedy (1913)
- The Mount of Transfiguration (1915)
NOVELS
- Broken Arcs (1911)
- Jacob Eltham (1914)
- Children of Earth (Shortly)
STUDIES
- Shakespeare: A Study (1911)
- Studies & Appreciations (1912)
- The Lyric Cry: An Anthology (Shortly)
- William Carleton
In “Every Irishman’s Library” (Shortly)
THIRD EDITION
Printed at The Talbot Press, 89 Talbot Street, Dublin
TO
THE LADY AT THE GATE
PREFATORY NOTE
The following pages were writtenmainly as a record for myself of daysin which one’s private interest crossed awider national interest, and which thereforeseemed worthy of being set down with somecare and faithfulness. In passing them forpublication now it is necessary for me toapologise for their incompleteness in certainparticulars. That incompleteness is due tono fault of mine. It has been arranged torectify this by an edition at a subsequentdate, when the contrast of edition withedition will reveal other matters relative tothese days.
D. F.
“On the Run,”
28th May, 1917.
A CHRONICLE OF JAILS
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