Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

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Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

1831–1915

A fierce Irish nationalist and Fenian organizer, he spent decades fighting British rule and became one of the most remembered symbols of militant Irish republicanism. His funeral in Dublin in 1915 helped stir the mood that soon led to the Easter Rising.

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Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898 Childhood, boyhood, manhood; customs, habits and manners of the Irish people; Erinach and Sassenach; Catholic and protestant; Englishman and Irishman; English religion; Irish plunder; social life and prison life; the Fenian movement; Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America

Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898 Childhood, boyhood, manhood; customs, habits and manners of the Irish people; Erinach and Sassenach; Catholic and protestant; Englishman and Irishman; English religion; Irish plunder; social life and prison life; the Fenian movement; Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America

by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

About the author

Born in County Cork and marked by the hardship of the Great Famine, he became deeply involved in Irish nationalist politics as a young man. He helped found the Phoenix National and Literary Society, later joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and became known for his uncompromising belief in Irish independence.

His activism brought imprisonment, and after years in British jails he was released and eventually settled in the United States. From there he kept campaigning, writing, fundraising, and supporting revolutionary activity, which made him a famous and controversial figure on both sides of the Atlantic.

When he died in 1915, his body was returned to Ireland for a major funeral in Dublin. The graveside speech delivered by Pádraig Pearse became one of the most famous orations in modern Irish history, helping turn O'Donovan Rossa from a veteran Fenian into an enduring symbol of resistance.