The Galtee Boy

A Fenian Prison Narrative

Editors' Introduction
A Fenian Prison Narrative
Appendix I Summary of coverage of Casey's trial in local newspapers
Appendix II Biographical notes of key figures
Editors' notes

"He has a marvellous colloquial turn of phrase and a sense of humour, desperately needed as he faces prison in Cork, Mountjoy and Pentonville ... With biographical notes on key figures of the era. Very valuable."

Books Ireland
Feb 2005

"This is not a diary, Casey is writing from recollection. The descriptions nevertheless of prison life are immediate and vivid ... Credit is due to the editors for a lucid text."

Irish Democrat
2005

"The Galtee Boy will certainly find a place in any study of Irish political history, autobiography studies, and the growing field of prison writing."

Canadian Journal of Irish Studies
31 (1) 2005

"a previously unpublished prison memoir that provides a valuable addition to the excellent UCD series Classics of Irish History as well as to the collective literature written over time by incarcerated Irish Republicans ... a thoroughly readable text, well introduced, and with ample and useful appendices and notes."

Irish Literary Supplement
Spring 2007

"University College Dublin Press has now published over thirty ‘Classics of Irish History'. These contemporary accounts by well known personalities of historical events and attitudes have an immediacy that conventional histories do not have. Introductions by modern historians provide additional historical background and, with hindsight, objectivity."

Books Ireland
Nov 2007

"Scholars of nineteenth-century Irish and Irish-American politics should reacquaint themselves with these classics, part of a long running and immensely useful series from University College Dublin Press.

Patrick Maume has edited and written the introductions for no less than nine of the books in this series, lending them his breadth of knowledge and keen analysis that have made him one of the most learned and intellectually generous young scholars in the field."

Irish Literary Supplement
Fall 2008