John O'Leary
John O'Leary (1830-1907) est un poète irlandais. Il étudie le droit et la médecine mais n'est pas diplômé, et il est emprisonné au XIX e siècle pour ses idées politiques.
Il inspire le grand poète Irlandais William Butler Yeats : "It was through the old fenian poet John O'Leary i found my themes"
Travaux
Young Ireland: The Old and the New (1885)
Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism (1896)
Références
Alan O'Day, ‘O'Leary, John (1830–1907)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, septembre 2004 ; online edn, May 2006
O'Leary Vol II, p. 205 & 211
Deirdre Toomey, ‘O'Leary, Ellen (1831–1889)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
Collected Letters, 1.503
W.B. Yeats : "General Introduction for my work "- 1937. Reprinted in Essays and Introductions , London; Macmillan 1961, &c.
Sources
Dr. Mark F. Ryan, Fenian Memories , Edited by T.F. O'Sullivan, M. H. Gill & Son, LTD, Dublin, 1945
John O'Leary, Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism , Downey & Co., Ltd, London, 1896 (Vol. I & II)
Leon Ó Broin, Fenian Fever: An Anglo-American Delemma , Chatto & Windus, London, 1971, (ISBN 0 7011 1749 4 ) .
Ryan, Desmond. The Fenian Chief: A Biography of James Stephens , Hely Thom LTD, Dublin, 1967
Four Years of Irish History 1845-1849, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. 1888.
Christy Campbell, Fenian Fire: The British Government Plot to Assassinate Queen Victoria , HarperCollins, London, 2002, (ISBN 0 00 710483 9 )
Owen McGee, The IRB: The Irish Republican Brotherhood from The Land League to Sinn Féin , Four Courts Press, 2005, (ISBN 1 85182 972 5 )
Speeches From the Dock, or Protests of Irish Patriotism , by Seán Ua Cellaigh, Dublin, 1953
Liens externes
Notices dans des dictionnaires ou encyclopédies généralistes :