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Patrick Sarsfield Cassidy was an Irish American journalist, poet and revolutionary.

Biography

Born circa 1850 in either Dunkineely, Donegal or Sligo, Ireland and died Christchurch, New Zealand in 1903. He emigrated to America at the age of 16.

He was a pioneering journalist worked as business editor of the New York Sunday Mercury.

He became head of the Fenian Council in 1886 after a power struggle with O'Donovan Rossa in which Rossa accused him of being an agent provocateur for the British. Cassidy was chiefly famous for his exposure of O'Donovan Rossa.

Biography

  • The Borrowed Bride: A Fairy Love Legend of Donegal (1892)[1]

References

  1. ^ https://archive.org/stream/borrowedbridefai00cass#page/4/mode/2up
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