Patrick Sarsfield Cassidy
Patrick Sarsfield Cassidy (c1850 - 1903) was an Irish American journalist, poet and revolutionary.
Biography[edit]
Born circa 1850 in Ireland, in either Dunkineely, County Donegal or Sligo. 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.[1] Cassidy was chiefly famous for his exposure of O'Donovan Rossa.
He died in Christchurch, New Zealand on 18 April 1903, and is buried in the Linwood Cemetery, Christchurch.[2] He had been manager of the New Zealand Times of Wellington for a time since 1896, and had a brother and nephew in Christchurch and Canterbury. [3][4][5][6]
Bibliography[edit]
- The Borrowed Bride: A Fairy Love Legend of Donegal (1892)[7]
References[edit]
- ^ Maume, Patrick (October 2009). "O'Donovan Rossa, Jeremiah". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
- ^ "Deaths". The Star. 20 April 1903.
- ^ "Personal Items". The Press. 20 April 1903.
- ^ "Personal Items". The New Zealand Herald. 20 April 1903.
- ^ "Obituaries". The New Zealand Herald. 6 May 1903.
- ^ "all sorts of people". New Zealand Free Lance. 25 April 1903.
- ^ Cassidy, Patrick Sarsfield (1892). The borrowed bride: a fairy love legend of Donegal. The Library of Congress. New York, Holt brothers.
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