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FUNERAL OF ODONOVAN ROSSA [1915]
A graveside pass, 3 ½ x 4 ½ ins, with stamp of memorial committee and signature of Sean Mac Gadhra [Sean McGarry] for the Wolfe Tone Memorial Committee.
FUNERAL OF ODONOVAN ROSSA [1915]
A graveside pass, 3 ½ x 4 ½ ins, with stamp of memorial committee and signature of Sean Mac Gadhra [Sean McGarry] for the Wolfe Tone Memorial Committee.
Diarmaid ODonovan Rossa, a lifelong Fenian from Co. Cork, lived mostly in the United States after his release from a British prison. When Tom Clarke heard of his death in 1915, he immediately cabled John Devoy to have the body returned to Ireland for burial, and sent Sean McGarry as his envoy to accompany the coffin on its transatlantic journey. No effort was spared to make the funeral a massive show of strength by the Irish Volunteers, culminating in Pearses historic address.
Provenance: Daly family of Limerick. Reproduced in Kathleen Daly Clarkes Revolutionary Woman, 1991, p. 102.
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