Irish Rebel

by TerryGolway (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1998

  $17.66

  In 1871, John Devoy, a young Irishman fighting for Irish independence, came to the USA in exile. Yet even while across the ocean, this Fenian greatly influenced Irish affairs. This assidously researched biography of Devoy chronicles a lifetime of activism in which her garnered much financial and moral support eithin the USA for the Republican cause in Ireland. Devoy was instrumental in both the Easter Rising of 1916 and the creation of the Irish Free State.