JEREMIAH O'DONOVAN ROSSA : UNREPENTANT FENIAN - KENNA, SHANE *****

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa died on June 29, 1915, in Staten Island, New York. On hearing of his death, Tom Clarke sent a transatlantic cable from Dublin to John Devoy in New York, with the simple message: "Send his body home at once." His funeral in Glasnevin Cemetery was one of the largest political funerals in Irish history, and is now accepted as the precursor to the Easter Rising. Patrick Pearse famously declared at Rossa's graveside, "The fools, the fools, the fools! They have left us our Fenian dead! And while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace!" This long-awaited biography of a hugely significant figure in Irish history examines the life of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa.