Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

Irish nationalist leader. Manager of the Fenian newspaper in the 1860s, before his arrest and imprisonment. Freed in 1871 and went to America, editing Irish American newspapers and writing numerous books. Died in New York. His interment in Dublin attracted a large crowd of supporters.

"Ireland, Prison Registers, 1790-1924," Jeremiah Donovan Rossa, 1865

• Name: Jeremiah Donovan Rossa
• Also Known As:
• Role of Individual: Prisoner
• Event: Prison
• Event Date: 1865
• Event Place: Richmond (Bridewell), Dublin, Ireland
• Residence:
• Age: 34
• Birthplace: Rosearbury Co Cork?
• Estimated Birth Year: 1831
• Prison: Richmond (Bridewell)
• Offence: High Treason By Compeering Wi

Family

O'Donovan Rossa was married three times and had eighteen children. On 6 June 1853, he married Nora (Nanno) Eager of Skibbereen, who bore him four sons. She died in 1860. In 1861 he married Ellen Buckley of Castlehaven. They had one son (Timothy Francis). She died in July 1863. In November 1864 he married, for the third time, to Mary Jane (Molly) Irwin of Clonakilty. They had thirteen children.

His descendants still live in Staten Island, including a local politician named Jerome X. O'Donovan, who served on the New York City Council.