O'Donovan Rossa - Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland - Statues of Historic Figures on Waymarking.com

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Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (September 1831 - 29 June 1915), was an Irish Fenian leader and prominent member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

He was born at Rosscarbery, County Cork, to Denis O'Donovan and Nellie O'Driscoll, a family of tenant farmers. He became a shopkeeper in Skibbereen, where, in 1856, he established the Phoenix National and Literary Society, the aim of which was "the liberation of Ireland by force of arms", This organisation would later merge with the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), founded two years later in Dublin.
In December 1858, he was arrested and jailed without trial until July 1859. In 1865, he was charged with plotting a Fenian rising in 1865, put on trial for high treason and sentenced to penal servitude for life due to his previous convictions. He served his time in prisons in England.

In an 1869 by-election, he was returned to the British House of Commons for the Tipperary constituency, The election was declared invalid because he was an imprisoned felon.

After giving an understanding that he would not return to Ireland, in effect his exile, O'Donovan Rossa was released as part of the Fenian Amnesty of 1870. Boarding the S. S. Cuba, he left for the United States with his friend John Devoy and three other exiles. Together they were dubbed "The Cuba Five".

O'Donovan Rossa took up residence in New York City, where he joined Clan na Gael and the Fenian Brotherhood.
Rossa organised the first ever bombings by Irish republicans of

English cities in what was called the "dynamite campaign". The campaign lasted through the 1880s and made him infamous in Britain.
The British government demanded his extradition, to no effect. But it did cause a rift in the Irish independence movement itself, as many disavowed his tactics.


Rossa was allowed to visit Ireland in 1894, and again in 1904. On the latter visit, he was made a "Freeman of the City of Cork".

A memorial to O'Donovan Rossa stands in St. Stephen's Green, and a bridge over the River Liffey was renamed in his honour. A street in Cork City bears his name. A park in Skibbereen is also named after him as is the local gaelic football team.

O'Donovan Rossa was married three times and had eighteen children

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