Ricard O'Sullivan Burke
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Ricard O'Sullivan Burke was an Irish nationalist, Fenian activist, Union American Civil War soldier, U.S. Republican Party campaigner, and a public-works engineer. Travelling extensively, he performed
Portrait of Burke taken before September 1913
A memorial dedicated to O'Sullivan Burke and his brother Morgan, located at St Bartholomew's Church, Castletown-Kinneigh, County Cork, Ireland.
Timothy Deasy
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Timothy John Deasy was an Irish survivor of the Great Famine who emigrated with his family to Massachusetts in the United States. He later became an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil
Ricard O'Sullivan Burke
…remand for a year under the alias 'Henry Shaw'. Burke and Casey were accused - correctly in Burke's case - of organising the escape of Thomas Kelly and Timothy Deasy, as they were being transferred to Belle Vue Gaol, Manchester. One of the armed Fenian group who attacked the prison carriage, Peter Rice, fired through…
A depiction of the Battle of Ridgeway in which Deasy fought