Charles Joseph Kickham (9 May1828–22 August1882) was an Irish patriot, novelist and poet. May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (130th in leap years). ... 1828 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ... Year 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ...
Kickham was born and educated at Mullinahone, County Tipperary. At thirteen he was involved in a gunpowder accident which permanently injured his sight and hearing. Soon after he founded the Mullinahone Young Ireland Confederate Club. Kickham contributed articles to James Stephens' The Irish People at this time and later became that paper's editor in which capacity he was arrested in 1865 for writing 'treasonous' articles. Kickham, nearly blind and almost completely deaf, was tried and sentenced to fourteen years penal servitude. He was imprisoned in Portland and Woking prisons where he wrote his first novel Sally Kavanagh (1869). Mullinahone is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland. ... Statistics Province: Munster County Town: North: Nenagh South: Clonmel Code: North: TN South: TS Area: 4,303 km² Population (2006) 149,040[[1]] County Tipperary (Contae Thiobraid Ãrann in Irish) is a county in the Republic of Ireland, and situated in the province of Munster. ... James Stephens (February 9, 1882–December 26, 1950) was an Irish novelist and poet. ...
Kickham was released in 1870 due to ill-health. He lived in Blackrock, County Dublin where he continued to write poetry and novels. His Knocknagow; or The Homes of Tipperary (1879) was a phenomenal success, making Kickham the most popular Irish novelist of the 19th century. BlackRock Inc. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 52. ...
Kickham was President of the Supreme Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood at his death. The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) was a secret fraternal organisation dedicated to fomenting armed revolt against the British state in Ireland in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. ...
Kickham's funeral procession was one of the largest ever witnessed in Ireland when he died in 1882 with over 10,000 mourners in attendance. Year 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ...
He was the son of John Kickham, a wealthy draper of Mullinahone, and Anne O'Mahony, lovingly described in his novel "Sally Cavanagh", a kinswoman of the Fenian chief, John O'Mahony.
The question of his ill-treatment in prison was raised in Parliament (7-26 May, 1867) by John Francis Maguire, M.P. for Cork, and, from solitary confinement at Pentonville, Kickham was removed to the invalid prison at Woking, and finally released in March, 1869, when his health had been shattered and he had practically lost his eyesight.
Kickham contributed largely to Irish national periodicals, such as "The Nation" (1848), "The Irishman" (1849-50), "The Celt" (1857), another paper called "The Irishman" (1858), "The Irish People" (1865), "The Shamrock", "The Irish Monthly" (1881).
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