Between Two Flags: John Mitchel & Jenny Verner

by Anthony G. Russell

Book Overview

Between Two Flags tells the gripping story of the turbulent yet enduring and loving marriage of John Mitchel and Jenny Verner. Their courtship was opposed by both families, and their elopement and marriage caused public consternation, but this remarkable couple went on to live through and influence the politics of mid-19th-century Ireland and the United States. Both were ardent supporters of physical force Republicanism and of the American Confederates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785370014
• ISBN13: 9781785370014
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Merrion Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.