Series 7 - Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa memoir

451pp

Citation for a published source: Rossa, O'Donovan (1898) (2004). Rossa's Recollections 1838 to 1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary. Guilford: Connecticut: Lyons Press. Originally published 1898, New York: Mariner's Harbor.

Materials pertaining to the autobiography of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Irish Fenian leader who was one of the leading members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). Born and raised in Rosscarbery, County Cork, he witnessed the Great Famine, which he discusses in his memoir. Rossa founded the Phoenix National and Literary Society and dedicated his life to working towards the establishment of an independent Irish Republic. He joined the IRB, was arrested by the British and sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1869 he was elected to the British parliament while in prison. After being exiled to the United States in 1870 as part of the Cuba Five amnesty, Rossa worked with other Irish revolutionary organisations there to oppose British rule in Ireland. In 1891 Rossa's ban from the United Kingdom expired, and thereafter he undertook lecture tours of Britain and Ireland. Series includes: Miller's typed transcript of sections from O'Donovan Rossa's Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary (Guilford: Connecticut: Lyons Press, 2004; originally published 1898, New York: Mariner's Harbor); a copy of the published text; and Miller's research notes.

Additional information regarding this series can be found in Collection POL15 (Fenian Republican Brotherhood Collection).