Failing to re-establish his career as a shipping agent, MacManus died in poverty around the age of 50. His body was returned to Ireland, here he was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, on 10 November 1861. Fenians organized a huge funeral and nationalist demonstration to honor MacManus. Quotes From the dock before sentencing, 24 October 1848: ... "I say, whatever part I may have taken in the struggle for my country's independence, whatever part I may have acted in my short career, I stand before you, my lords, with a free heart and a light conscience, to abide the issue of your sentence. And now, my lords, this is, perhaps, the fittest time to put a sentence upon record, which is this - that standing in this dock, and called to ascend the scaffold - it may be to-morrow - it may be now - it may be never - whatever the result may be, I wish to put this on record, that in the part I have taken I was not actuated by enmity towards Englishmen - for among them I have passed some of the happiest days of my life, and the most prosperous; and in no part which I have taken was I actuated by enmity towards Englishmen individually, whatever I may have felt of the injustice of English rule in this island; I therefore say, that it is not because I loved England less, but because I loved Ireland more, that I now stand before you". See also List of convicts transported to Australia References Further reading Malcolm Brown, The Politics of Irish Literature: from Thomas Davis to W.B. Yeats, Allen & Unwin, 1973. John Mitchel, A Cause Too Many, Aidan Hegarty, Camlane Press. Thomas Davis, The Thinker and Teacher, Arthur Griffith, M.H. Gill & Son 1922. Capt. W. F. Lyons, Brigadier-General Thomas Francis Meagher: His Political and Military Career, Burns Oates & Washbourne Limited, 1869 Dennis Gwynn, Young Ireland and 1848, Cork University Press, 1949. Daniel O'Connell The Irish Liberator, Dennis Gwynn, Hutchinson & Co, Ltd. O'Connell Davis and the Colleges Bill, Dennis Gwynn, Cork University Press 1948. Dennis Gwynn Smith, O’Brien And The "Secession", Cork University Press Meagher of The Sword, Ed, Arthur Griffith, M. H. Gill & Son, Ltd., 1916. Young Irelander Abroad: The Diary of Charles Hart, Ed. Brendan O'Cathaoir, University Press. John Mitchel: First Felon for Ireland, Ed. Brian O'Higgins, Brian