John Devoy
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John Devoy was an Irish republican rebel and journalist who owned and edited The Gaelic American, a New York weekly newspaper, from 1903 to 1928.
Devoy in 1916
The Cuba Five: John Devoy, Charles O'Connell, Henry Mullady, O'Donovan Rossa and John McClure
Devoy c. 1880s
Desmond FitzGerald hosting Devoy during his 1924 tour of Ireland
Catalpa rescue
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The Catalpa rescue was the escape, on 17–19 April 1876, of six Irish Fenian prisoners from the Convict Establishment, a British penal colony in Western Australia. They were taken on the convict ship H
John Devoy
…States. In 1877, he aligned the organisation with the Irish Republican Brotherhood in Ireland. In 1875, Devoy and John Boyle O'Reilly organised the escape of six Fenians from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia aboard the Catalpa. In 1879, Devoy returned to Ireland to inspect Fenian centres and met Charles Kickham…
The Catalpa under sail with escapees approaching in whaleboat
The main cellblock of Fremantle Prison
Captain George Anthony, circa 1897