Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa ( Irish Diarmaid Ó Donnabháin Rosa , born September 10, 1831 in Ross Carbery , County Cork , Ireland , † June 29, 1915 in Staten Island , New York City ) was an Irish agitator .
Life
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was born in 1831 to a poor farmer in Rosscarbery near Skibbereen in County Cork. He ran a junk shop in Skibberen and founded the Phoenix Society there in 1856, from which the Irish Republican Brotherhood developed in 1858 . In December 1858 he was arrested; although he was soon set free again, his business had since collapsed.
Now O'Donovan Rossa devoted himself entirely to political agitation, became a fanatical opponent of English rule in Ireland who did not shrink from any violence and one of the main organizers of the secret societies fighting this hegemony. Since 1863 he published the magazine Irish People , which incessantly agitated against the "bloody Saxons", and in whose editorial rooms the threads of the revolutionary movement came together. A house search carried out here in 1865 delivered the brotherhood's secret papers into the hands of the government. O'Donovan Rossa was arrested again on September 15, 1865 and sentenced to life in prison. His election to MP by the Irish constituency Tipperary was declared null and void by the House of Commons in 1869 . In 1870 he was pardoned and set free.
Now O'Donovan Rossa emigrated to the United States , where he was at the forefront of the most extreme Fenian branch . Its organs, Irish World, and since 1881 United Ireland, preached the fight against England by dynamite and arson. In 1877 he had founded the so-called Skirmishing Fund (" Skirmish Fund "), a collection of funds for the purpose of this fight against England. The fund swelled to $ 80,000, but was taken out of hand because of irregularities discovered. An over-the-top English woman, Yseult Dudley, wounded the conspirator lightly on February 2, 1885 with a pistol shot. In 1887 he was excluded from the Fenierbund because of his unreliability. In 1898 he got a job with the New York City Council.
O'Donovan Rossa was allowed to visit Ireland as early as 1894, and in 1904 he was allowed to visit his homeland again. In his later years he was very ill and eventually cuffed to a bed at St. Vincent's Hospital in Staten Island, where he died on June 29, 1915 at the age of 83. His body was transferred to Ireland and buried in Glasnevin Cemetery on August 1, 1915 .
literature
- O'Donovan Rossa . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon , 4th edition 1885-92, 12th vol., P. 330 ( online )
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| SURNAME | O'Donovan Rossa, Jeremiah |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ó Donnabháin Rosa, Diarmaid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish agitator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rosscarbery , County Cork , Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1915 |
| Place of death | Staten Island , New York City |