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{"value"=>"VIII. Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was born in 1831 in Rosscarbery, County Cork, Ireland. He was a Fenian leader and a member of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood. He was a teenager during the years of the Famine and his father died from \"famine fever\" in 1847. In 1856, he founded the Phoenix National and Literary Society, whose aim was to achieve the independence of Ireland by any means necessary. Two years later the Phoenix Society became part of James Stephens' Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood. O'Donovan Rossa was arrested in December 1858, along with other leaders of the Brotherhood, after an informant reported on the organization to the police. He was held without trial until the following July.</p> <p>In 1865 O'Donovan Rossa was convicted of planning the Fenian Rising and was sentenced to penal servitude for life. He was granted amnesty in 1870 on the condition that he leave Ireland forever. He immigrated to the United States in January of 1871 along with fellow Fenian John Devoy. Upon their arrival, both men joined the Clan-na-Gael. O'Donovan Rossa also joined the Fenian Brotherhood and worked on its newspaper, The United Irishman.</p> <p>In 1875, O'Donovan Rossa established a fund to provide arms for republican forces in Ireland, suggesting dynamite as the chief weapon. This was the first bombing campaign in Britain by the Irish independence movement and was known as the \"dynamite campaign\". It lasted through the next decade and made him an infamous figure in Britain. The British government unsuccessfully called for his extradition. Devoy and O'Donovan Rossa disagreed over the dynamite campaign and O'Donovan Rossa left the Clan-na-Gael in 1880.</p> <p>O'Donovan Rossa was allowed to return to Ireland twice, in 1894 and 1904. He published two autobiographies, <em>Irish Rebels in English Prisons</em> and <em>Rossa's Recollections, 1838-1898</em>. Upon his death in 1915, he was hailed as a hero and his body was returned to Ireland for burial. This series contains correspondence, articles and essays, and other material relating to Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa and the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood.</p>"}
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