James Fintan Lalor was an Irish revolutionary, journalist, and βone of the most powerful writers of his day.β A leading member of the Irish Confederation, he was to play an active part in both the Reb
John O'Leary was an Irish separatist and a leading Fenian. He studied both law and medicine but did not take a degree and for his involvement in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, he was imprisoned for
O'Leary, 1900
Portrait of John O'Leary by John Butler Yeats, 1904