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Excerpt from Reminiscences of John Adye Curran K. C: Late County Court Judge and Chairman of Quarter Sessions <p>A not unfrequent fashion with compilers of Remi niscences is to make their preludial bow with an apology or form of justification. Int sending forth this volume I shall not take the trouble to apologize or to justify. In the' great adventure of life it is given to some men to play a little part in one or more of these incidents which mark the progress of a nation. The ever-increasing sum of such incidents when placed by the historian in the right perspective is called history. For me the investigation into the aims and deeds of the hideous Invincible Conspiracy which culminated in the assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Thomas Henry Burke, on May 6, 1882, has been such an event. In the thirty-two years which have elapsed, not one of the many who have en deavoured to tell that bloody story has succeeded either in a correct statement of the facts or the proper appraisement of the motives of the assassins. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.