Bücher von O'donovan Rossa

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was born in Rosscarbery, County Cork, in 1831 and in 1856 founded the Phoenix National and Literary Society "for the liberation of Ireland by force of arms." He was jailed in 1858, accused of plotting the Fenian Rising in 1865, tried for high treason, and sentenced to penal servitude for life, but was released in 1871 and exiled to America. While in New York he edited the United Irishman, raised 40,000 for the Fenian movement, and funded the Holland Submarine Project. 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.