Patrick Sarsfield Cassidy (c1850 - 1903) was an Irish American journalist, poet and revolutionary.

Biography

Born circa 1850 in either Dunkineely, Donegal or Sligo,

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

. 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 The word ''Fenian'' () served as an umbrella term for the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and their affiliate in the United States, the Fenian Brotherhood, secret political organisations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries dedicated ...

Council in 1886 after a power struggle with

O'Donovan Rossa Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa ( ga, Diarmaid Ó Donnabháin Rosa; baptised 4 September 1831, died 29 June 1915)Con O'Callaghan Reenascreena Community Online (dead link archived at archive.org, 29 September 2014) was an Irish Fenian leader and member ...

in which Rossa accused him of being an agent provocateur for the British. Cassidy was chiefly famous for his exposure of O'Donovan Rossa. He died in

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, New Zealand on 18 April 1903, and is buried in the Linwood Cemetery, Christchurch. 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.

Bibliography

*''The Borrowed Bride: A Fairy Love Legend of Donegal'' (1892)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cassidy, Patrick Sarsfield 1850s births 1903 deaths 19th-century Irish writers American business and financial journalists American male journalists Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) 19th-century American male writers Irish emigrants to New Zealand (before 1923) Year of birth missing New Zealand journalists