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JEREMIAH O'DONOVAN ROSSA

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
JEREMIAH O'DONOVAN ROSSA
(1831 - 1915) Irish Fenian leader and prominent member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. In 1865, he was charged with plotting a Fenian rising and sentenced to penal servitude for life. Rossa was released as part of the Fenian Amnesty of 1870, and from exile in the U.S. he organized the first ever bombings by Irish republicans of English cities in what was called the "dynamite campaign". Rare pair of signatures, one in English, one in Gaelic, 1875, each on separate cards. Fine.

Estimate: $200 - 300.

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