biography
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| lived:
| (1825–1901)
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| biography:
| Irish nationalist, born in Kilkenny, Co Kilkenny, E Ireland. A civil engineer, he became an active agent of the Young Ireland Party. After the rising at Ballingarry (1848), he escaped to France. In 1853 he journeyed round Ireland, and founded and led the Irish Republican Brotherhood (Fenians). He started the Irish People newspaper (1863) to urge armed rebellion, visited America on fund-raising missions, and was arrested in Dublin in 1865, but escaped. He found his way to New York, was deposed by the Fenians, and with the decline in his political importance was allowed to return to Ireland in 1891. |
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