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The road to 1916 ran through Cork. This book follows the Fenians from the Famine childhood of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa in Rosscarbery to the day his funeral lit the fuse for the Rising. You will read about the secret Brotherhood, the 1865 arrests, the rising of 1867, the Manchester Martyrs, and the dynamite campaign Rossa ran from exile in New York. Twelve chapters end at Glasnevin in 1915, with Patrick Pearse's graveside oration. Illustrated, with a guide to the Cork Fenian sites. Digital download (PDF).
What's inside:
Prologue: Glasnevin, 1 August 1915
1. Rosscarbery and the Famine
2. The Phoenix Society
3. The Brotherhood
4. The Irish People and the Arrests
5. Sixty-Seven
6. The Manchester Martyrs
7. The Prison
8. The Tipperary Election
9. The American Exile
10. The Skirmishing Fund and the Dynamite War
11. The Funeral
12. The Rising and the Long Fuse
Epilogue: The Fuse
43 pages, illustrated, with a guide to the Cork Fenian sites.
From the opening pages:
Patrick Pearse was thirty-five when he stood over Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa's coffin at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. It was a hot Sunday in August, and the crowd was large, with estimates running from a few thousand to tens of thousands, and the photographs show a dense mass of people stretching back from the graveside.
Rossa had been dead for two weeks. He had died on 29 June 1915 in Staten Island, New York, aged eighty-three, not having set foot in Ireland for forty-four years. The Irish Republican Brotherhood brought his body home and organised the funeral as a public demonstration of republican strength, with the body lying in state at Dublin's City Hall for two days while enormous queues filed past.
The road to 1916 ran through Cork. This book follows the Fenians from the Famine childhood of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa in Rosscarbery to the day his funeral lit the fuse for the Rising. You will read about the secret Brotherhood, the 1865 arrests, the rising of 1867, the Manchester Martyrs, and the dynamite campaign Rossa ran from exile in New York. Twelve chapters end at Glasnevin in 1915, with Patrick Pearse's graveside oration. Illustrated, with a guide to the Cork Fenian sites. Digital download (PDF).
What's inside:
Prologue: Glasnevin, 1 August 1915
1. Rosscarbery and the Famine
2. The Phoenix Society
3. The Brotherhood
4. The Irish People and the Arrests
5. Sixty-Seven
6. The Manchester Martyrs
7. The Prison
8. The Tipperary Election
9. The American Exile
10. The Skirmishing Fund and the Dynamite War
11. The Funeral
12. The Rising and the Long Fuse
Epilogue: The Fuse
43 pages, illustrated, with a guide to the Cork Fenian sites.
From the opening pages:
Patrick Pearse was thirty-five when he stood over Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa's coffin at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. It was a hot Sunday in August, and the crowd was large, with estimates running from a few thousand to tens of thousands, and the photographs show a dense mass of people stretching back from the graveside.
Rossa had been dead for two weeks. He had died on 29 June 1915 in Staten Island, New York, aged eighty-three, not having set foot in Ireland for forty-four years. The Irish Republican Brotherhood brought his body home and organised the funeral as a public demonstration of republican strength, with the body lying in state at Dublin's City Hall for two days while enormous queues filed past.
