Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Shirye-shiryen tayar da hankali ya riga ya ci gaba. Ko da yake Mitchel ne ya fara kiran a dauki mataki, ya yi ba'a ga bukatar shiri na tsari. O'Brien, ga mamakin Duffy, ya yi ƙoƙari ya yi aikin. A watan Maris na 1848 O'Brien da Thomas Francis Meagher sun dawo daga juyin juya halin Paris
tare da fatan taimakon Faransa. (Daga cikin manyan 'yan jamhuriya a Faransa, Ledru-Rollin ya kasance mai ƙarfi a cikin sanarwarsa na goyon bayan Faransa ga Irish). An kuma yi magana game da wani brigade na Irish-American da kuma wani mai ba da labari na Chartist a Ingila Tare da kama Duffy, an bar shi ga O'Brien don fuskantar gaskiyar keɓewar "gida" na Confederates.