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| | Finding Aid for the Fenian Brotherhood Records at ACUA |
 | | The collection is divided into two series.The Fenian Brotherhood Papers contain documents related to the activities of the Fenian Brotherhood in the United States.The Personal Papers of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa contain documents related to the personal affairs of O’Donovan Rossa, outside of his role in the Fenian Brotherhood. | | | The first sub-series in the Fenian Brotherhood Papers consists of correspondence to and from various prominent people involved in the formation of the Brotherhood.In addition to J. O’Donovan Rossa (1831-1915), there is correspondence to and from several of the founders and co-founders of the Fenian Brotherhood. | | | Rossa also owned and managed a hotel in Manhattan.Even after the Fenians had ceased to operate, Rossa was an outspoken critic of the British occupation of Ireland.He ran for NY State Senate in 1871, but lost in a closely contested and questionable election. |
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http://libraries.cua.edu/achrcua/Fenian.html
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| | Finding Aid for the Fenian Brotherhood Records at ACUA |
| | The collection is divided into two series.The Fenian Brotherhood Papers contain documents related to the activities of the Fenian Brotherhood in the United States.The Personal Papers of Jeremiah O& contain documents related to the personal affairs of O&, outside of his role in the Fenian Brotherhood. | | | The first sub-series in the Fenian Brotherhood Papers consists of correspondence to and from various prominent people involved in the formation of the Brotherhood.In addition to J. O& (1831-1915), there is correspondence to and from several of the founders and co-founders of the Fenian Brotherhood. | | | Rossa also owned and managed a hotel in Manhattan.Even after the Fenians had ceased to operate, Rossa was an outspoken critic of the British occupation of Ireland.He ran for NY State Senate in 1871, but lost in a closely contested and questionable election. |
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http://libraries.cua.edu/achrcua/Fenian.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898 : Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary |
| | In this detailed account, nineteenth-century Irish patriot and revolutionary Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa describes his life's experiences, tracing his early boyhood growing up on his grandfather's farm in Renascreena, his thirteen-year imprisonment for his involvement in the Fenian movement, and finally his exile to America, where he continued his activities in support of Irish independence. | | | In this colorful, detailed account, nineteenth-century Irish patriot and revolutionary Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa describes his life's experiences, tracing his early boyhood growing up on his grandfather's farm in Renascreena, his thirteen-year imprisonment for his involvement in the Fenian movement, and finally his exile to America, where he continued his activities in support of Irish independence. | | | Rossa's rambling style, with frequent digressions and asides, makes the narrative read like a fireside conversation between friends. |
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http://www.eigo-i.com/shows/1592283624/Rossas-Recollections,-1838-to-1898-Memoirs-of.html
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| | Finding Aid for the Fenian Brotherhood Records at ACUA |
| | The collection is divided into two series.The Fenian Brotherhood Papers contain documents related to the activities of the Fenian Brotherhood in the United States.The Personal Papers of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa contain documents related to the personal affairs of O’Donovan Rossa, outside of his role in the Fenian Brotherhood. | | | The first sub-series in the Fenian Brotherhood Papers consists of correspondence to and from various prominent people involved in the formation of the Brotherhood.In addition to J. O’Donovan Rossa (1831-1915), there is correspondence to and from several of the founders and co-founders of the Fenian Brotherhood. | | | The fifth sub-series (Fenian Publications) consists ofofficial Fenian Brotherhood publications and other printed materials which discuss the activities of the Fenians.This includes proceedings of Fenian Conventions, versions of the Fenian Constitution, versions of the Fenian By-Laws, and speeches made to the organization. |
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http://libraries.cua.edu/achrcua/fenian.html
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| | Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa d NY b Dublin Ire Fenian |
| | On Aug. 1, 1915, the funeral of Fenian Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was held before a huge crowd at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. | | | living nations.' -- From Patrick Pearse's oration at the grave side of O'Donovan Rossa, Aug. 1, 1915 I am not related & have no toher information (but I really wish I were. | | | Rossa's body had been returned from New York, where he had died June 30. |
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http://genforum.genealogy.com/rossa/messages/1.html
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| | México - Presidencia de la República Foros |
| | A club called the Phoenix National and Literary Society, with Jeremiah Donovan (afterwards known as O'Donovan Rossa) among its more prominent members, had recently been formed at Skibbereen. | | | Every member of this club shall attend all the meetings whether regular or special; and when on duty or in attendance at the meetings, shall obey the officers in command, and shall at all times perform such duties as shall be required of him by the officers in command. | | | The Phoenix Club conspiracy in County Kerry was betrayed by an informer and was crushed by the government. |
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http://foros.presidencia.gob.mx/read.php?f=5&i=5223&t=5223
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| | This Week in the History of the Irish -- The Wild Geese Today |
| | One of them was Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, as steadfast an enemy of English rule in Ireland as any who ever lived. | | | The names of many of the men released by William Gladstone's government are well known to those who have studied the Irish Republican movement. | | | The man most responsible for the release of 1871 was John 'Amnesty' Nolan, who thus earned his sobriquet. |
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http://www.thewildgeese.com/pages/dates.html
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| | Amazon.com: Irish Rebel: John Devoy and America's Fight for Ireland's Freedom: Books: Terry Golway |
| | New York, John Devoy, Gaelic American, Land League, Irish America, United States, Irish World, House of Commons, Friends of Irish Freedom, American Irish, William Devoy, Eamon De Valera, Michael Collins, British Army, Skirmishing Fund, White House, Revolutionary Directory, Tom Clarke, Michael Davitt, County Kildare, Irish Volunteers, Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Great Britain, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa | | | Devoy was an longlived agitator, fundraiser, journalist, convicted Irish revolutionary and American refugee who bankrolled Parnell, Patrick Pearse and Michael Collins, butted heads with the Ulster Presbyterian Woodrow Wilson and the egomaniacal Eamon de Valera, and sacrificed his personal happiness in the process. | | | Often, the zeal of the "exiled children in America", as we're referred to in the Irish Proclamation of Independence from 1916, has surpassed that of those Irish we've left behind back home. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312181183?v=glance
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| | John Philip Holland |
| | He introduced his brother John to Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa that same year. | | | In 1920, John, Agnes and the children were living in Jersey City and John was employed as a railroad brakeman. | | | John C. Holland (son of Michael Joseph Holland) married Agnes M. O'Donnell of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania on June 6, 1910. |
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http://www.geocities.com/gwmccue/People/Holland_Michael.html
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| | BBC - History - Wars - 1916 Easter Rising - Profiles - The Irish Republican Brotherhood |
| | The IRBs reorganisation was begun after the release from prison in 1871 of two of its most effective leaders - Jeremiah O`Donovan Rossa and John Devoy. | | | Its constitution was amended in 1873; it was thereafter to be governed by a partially elected, eleven-man Supreme Council, representative of its seven British and Irish electoral divisions; members swore to regard this Council as the Government of the Irish Republic. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/easterrising/profiles/po17.shtml
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| | Padraig Pearse |
| | His political philosophy can be summed up in the words that he spoke over the gravesite of the Irish Fenian rebel, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa: | | | He was executed on May 3, 1916 with fourteen other rebels and signatories of the Irish Declaration of Independence, a document largely written by Pearse. | | | One of the early modern proponents of the Irish language and culture as a political device against English subjection, Pearse was the author of many works, including "The Murder Machine," a stinging critique of English education in Ireland. |
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http://faculty.roosevelt.edu/Fallon/padraig_pearse.html
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| | Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 2004040816 |
| | Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: O'Donovan Rossa, Jeremiah, 1831-1915, Revolutionaries Ireland Biography, Ireland History 1837-1901, Fenians Biography | | | While in New York he edited the United Irishman, raised £40,000 for the Fenian movement, and funded the Holland Submarine Project. | | | The Library of Congress makes no claims as to the accuracy of the information provided, and will not maintain or otherwise edit/update the information supplied by the publisher. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/globe051/2004040816.html
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| | To The Irish Men and Fenians of Iowa - 1867 |
| | A staunch Fenian and die-hard Irish rebel, Jeremiah O'Donovan-Rossa (1831-1915) was made business manager of the Irish People, the Fenian newspaper started by James Stephens, the self styled "Chief Organizer Irish Republic" or COIR. | | | Boston, March 2- A great meeting of the friends of Irish nationality was held last night in Faneuil Hall under the auspices of the Fenian Brotherhood, at which speeches were made by Col. Mahoney, the head center of the Brotherhood of the U.S., Capt. R.R. Walsh, of Pa., and A.P. Sinnett, of Boston. | | | Address all letters to Capt. W.H. Grace, Box 1591 Dubuque, or in care of |
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http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/feniansofiowa1867.htm
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| | SEARC'S WEB GUIDE - Alexander Martin Sullivan (1830-1884) |
| | In 1855 he became assistant editor of The Nation and in 1865 a Fenian court sentenced him to death for publishing articles which resulted in the imprisonment of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa and the Phoenix 'conspirators'. | | | Alexander Martin Sullivan, brother of T.D. Sullivan, was born in Bantry, County Cork. | | | In 1874 Sullivan was elected to Parliament for Louth and in 1880 he was elected to Parliament for Meath. |
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http://www.searcs-web.com/sullivan.html
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| | 1169 and counting.... |
| | At the funeral of the Fenian leader Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, in August 1915, a fifteen-years young girl, from Henrietta Street in Dublin, was moved by the scenes she witnessed...... | | | One year later, that girl, Katie O'Connor, now aged 16, involved herself in the Easter Rising carrying messages between the different rebel garrisons, and the following year she joined Clann na nGael, the Irish Republican girl scout organisation ( which had been founded by the Kelly sisters in 1910). |
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http://1169andcounting.blogspot.com/2003_06_15_1169andcounting_archive.html
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| | Patrick Pearse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | On 1 August 1915, Pearse gave a now-famous graveside oration at the funeral of the Fenian Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa. | | | Pearse was 36 years old at the time of his death. | | | Early in 1914, Pearse became a member of the secret Irish Republican Brotherhood, an organisation dedicated to the overthrow of British rule in Ireland and its replacement with a Republic. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Pearse
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| | Ireland's OWN History |
| | Padraig Pearse (1879-1916) Graveside oration, given on 1 August 1915, at the funeral of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (1831-1915). |
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http://irelandsown.net/ppearse2.html
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| | WEOURSELVES.doc |
| | They have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree will never be at peace. Graveside oration given by Padraig Pearse for Jeremiah ODonovan Rossa. | | | Later, he received his law degree from the Royal University in Dublin and, after a short career (he is on record for trying but one case), he went on to found Scoil Eanna (Saint Endas) school for boys. | | | Born Patrick Henry Pearse of an English father and Irish mother in Dublin City on November 10, 1879
at an early age, Pearse and his three siblings were regaled with tales of Irelands heroes by an elderly aunt. |
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http://www.orgsites.com/pa/aoh17/WEOURSELVES.doc
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| | 1915 in Ireland -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | August 1 - Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery in (Capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Free State) Dublin. | | | May 25 - The (Click link for more info and facts about British Prime Minister) British Prime Minister appoints a national wartime coalition of 12 Liberals, 8 Unionists and 1 Labour member. | | | In (Capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Free State) Dublin the Irish Parliamentary Party approves (Click link for more info and facts about John Redmond) John Redmond's decision not to join. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/1/19/1915_in_Ireland.htm
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| | Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 2004040816 |
| | Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: O'Donovan Rossa, Jeremiah, 1831-1915, Revolutionaries Ireland Biography, Ireland History 1837-1901, Fenians Biography | | | He died in New York City in 1915 and was returned to Ireland for a hero's burial, with Patrick Pearse delivering his famous oration at his graveside. | | | While in New York he edited the United Irishman, raised £40,000 for the Fenian movement, and funded the Holland Submarine Project. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/globe051/2004040816.html
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| | Notable and Famous Irish Immigrants quiz |
| | Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was among the first to join the Fenian movement organized by James Stephens in 1858, and became the manager of its journalistic organ Irish People. | | | Stephen Clegg Rowan was born in Dublin in 1808 and emigrated with his family to Ohio in 1818. | | | He emigrated to America in 1871 after enduring twenty years of grueling penal servitude following an arrest in 1865 (he was freed on condition that he leave Ireland). |
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| | Tom Clarke (Irish republican) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | At the age of 18 he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and in 1883 he was sent to London to blow up London Bridge as part of the dynamiting campaign advocated by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, one of the IRB leaders exiled in the United States. | | | Clarke was quickly captured and subsequently served 15 years in Pentonville Prison. | | | Following the surrender on April 29, Clarke was held in Kilmainham Jail until his execution by firing squad on May 3rd at the age of 59. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clarke_(Irish_republican)
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| | Tom Clarke (Irish republican) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | At the age of 18 he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and in 1883 he was sent to London to blow up London Bridge as part of the dynamiting campaign advocated by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, one of the IRB leaders exiled in the United States. | | | Thomas James Clarke (March 11, 1857-May 3, 1916) was an Irish revolutionary leader and was perhaps the man most responsible for the Easter Rising of 1916. | | | Clarke was quickly captured and subsequently served 15 years in Pentonville Prison. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clarke_(Irish_republican)
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