Particularly interesting to those descendants of Irish emigrants who populated the Americas and Australia in the 19th century but also a very well told first person singular story of one "quality" revolutionary gentleman transported from the British Isles and the adventures he underwent in transit, on a hulk in Bermuda and in Van Diemen's land (Tasmania, Australia). Quite detailed and accurate almost sociological and political in its thrust as it traverses events that shaped the 20th century and the tragedies that resulted in that time. Atmospheric and memorable.