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Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

was born at Rosscarbery County Cork

He became a shopkeeper in Skibbereen, where, in 1856, he established the Phoenix National and Literary Society, the aim of which was "the liberation of Ireland by force of arms",

This organisation would later merge with the Irish Republican Brotherhood

Jeremiah organised the first ever bombings by Irish republicans of English cities in what was called the "dynamite campaign". The campaign lasted through the 1880s and made him infamous in Britain. The British government demanded his extradition, to no effect. But it did cause a rift in the Irish independence movement itself, as many disavowed his tactics

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was seriously ill in his later years, and was finally confined to a hospital bed in St. Vincent's Hospital, Staten Island, where he died at the age of 83.

His body was returned to Ireland for burial and a hero's welcome.

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