An upcoming documentary about Mary Jane O’Donovan Rossa, the wife of Fenian Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, will show she had much more to do with the revolutionary Fenian movement than her husband, her great grandchildren have said. Williams Rossa Cole and Rossa Williams Cole have previously directed a film about their great grandfather entitled Rebel Rossa, and are currently completing a similar documentary on their great grandmother. The Fenian leader Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa was buried at Glasnevin cemetery on August 1st, 1915, where the most famous graveside oration in Irish history took place. Easter Rising leader Pádraig Pearse told mourners: “They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! He was married three times and had 18 children with Mary Jane.

Source: The Irish Times October 07, 2018 23:26 UTC