The Faith of a Felon and Other WritingsJames Fintan Lalor (1807 1849) was one of the most original thinkers of the Young Ireland movement, and one of the most frequently appropriated by later Irish activists. From Michael Davitt to James Connolly, a host of self proclaimed disciples celebrated Lalor in succession as a proto Fenian rebel, the prophet of Irish land reform, the fourth evangelist of Irish nationalism, and the Irish apostle of revolutionary Socialism. Not all of these