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

Biography

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. 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. 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

1. Maume, Patrick (October 2009). "O'Donovan Rossa, Jeremiah". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
2. "Deaths". The Star. 20 April 1903.
3. "Personal Items". The Press. 20 April 1903.
4. "Personal Items". The New Zealand Herald. 20 April 1903.
5. "Obituaries". The New Zealand Herald. 6 May 1903.
6. "all sorts of people". New Zealand Free Lance. 25 April 1903.
7. 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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