This is a story I know well my cousin lived in New Bedford Mass and I was very familiar,the story of The Fenian Movement too connected me to the Jermiah O Donovan Rossa who lived in my hometown Skibbereen Co Cork and led the Movement with John Devoy.The connection to 1916 was so important Tom Clarke insisted on the return from New York of the body of O Donovan Rossa when he died in 1915 and the infamous oration of Pearse at the graveside "The fool's the fool's they've left us our Fenian dead and while we hold these graves, Ireland will never be free" within a year both Clarke and Pearse would both be dead, executed after Easter Week .John Devoy was one of the last Fenian leaders to live long enough to see the Irish Free State, he died in New York in 1928 and is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin... The other Irish connection too was Ulleses Grant 18th President of the United States his people were immigrants from Co Tyrone, was of course the commander of the Union Army took the surrender of Robert E Lee at the end of The American Civil War he was definitely not a lover of the British government or Empire, he deeply resented the support given by the British to the Confederate Government in Richmond VA ,born in Ohio but lived most of his life in New York..and would have been sympathetic to the Irish cause..

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Yes it is indeed.

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@@jennifertwemlow8485 Thank you. I have just begun researching one of the women who were on the boat. She was from the Isle of Man, which is where I live.