Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa looks back on his boyhood in Ross Carbery, County Cork: wakes, fireside stories, schooldays, landlords and the emigrant partings of the famine years. He goes on to the Fenian movement, the treatment of Irish political prisoners in English jails and his years in America, all told with bitter wit about the ‘Sassenach’.
A passionate first-hand source on Irish rural life and Fenianism by the man whose funeral in 1915 became a rallying point. Download the free EPUB.