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<div><strong>~~~THANK YOU FOR SO MUCH SUPPORT SO QUICKLY! ANY DONATIONS WILL BE PUT SOLELY TOWARD THE FILM AND THE MANY FINISHING COSTS. OF COURSE, YOU WILL BE CREDITED. THANK YOU!~~~</strong>
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<div><strong>The role of women in Irish history - in all history - is underrepresented.</strong> This documentary project will tell the story of <strong>Mary Jane Irwin O'Donovan Rossa</strong> of Clonakilty, West Cork. Nationalist, activist, poet, organizer, hero. She was the wife of <strong>Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa</strong>, the famous Fenian prisoner and agitator whose funeral in 1915 sparked the Easter Rising which led to the establishment of the Republic of Ireland. But Mary Jane had more to do with the revolutionary Fenian movement, Rossa's release from prison and making the historic funeral a reality than has ever been acknowledged. While Rossa's funeral was a huge and widely reported event Mary Jane's death in the summer of 1916 was hardly noticed. While Rossa is buried in the Republican Plot at Glasnevin National Cemetery in Dublin, Mary Jane's grave in Staten Island, NY is largely forgotten. This short documentary will help change that.
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<div>Directed by Williams Rossa Cole, Mary Jane's great-grandson and the director of <strong>Rebel Rossa</strong> - a film that premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh 2016, broadcast on RTE One and is currently available on Amazon Prime - <strong>Rebel Wife: Mary Jane Irwin O'Donovan Rossa</strong> (working title), will raise Mary Jane's profile and acknowledge her significant accomplishments. 
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<div>Much of the material was filmed during the production of Rebel Rossa and so this film will be completed on a modest budget. Editing has already begun and the funds raised here will be used for: additional editing, sound mix, music licensing, color correction, festival submission and educational distribution strategy. 
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<div>Your support will help get this essential story out there and hopefully inspire more stories like it about largely forgotten women in history. Everyone that donates will be thanked and credited in the film. Like most documentary film efforts this is a labor of love fueled also by a strong belief that the story of women in history has long been erased, sidelined and unacknowledged. This project will do a little something to help that. Thank you sincerely!
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REBEL WIFE - MARY JANE  O'DONOVAN ROSSA DOC

<div>My name is Emmet Fields. I'm a pupil of Portmarnock Community School, and along with Fingal County Council, the school is a partner with Action Ireland Trust.  Action Ireland Trust is a registered charity dedicated to transforming the lives of rural communities in Lesotho. It has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Lesotho Ministry for Education and Training to partner with five schools in Maseru to provide extensive teacher training and to improve school facilities for over 5,000 learners. As a result, significant infrastructural improvements are ongoing at the local Ha Hlalele high school and primary school, including sanitary installations. In April, I am travelling to Lesotho to volunteer for two weeks to teach the children and carry out a range of works on the school. Any donation, big or small, will be greatly appreciated. 
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<div>The National Graves Association in Ireland is fundraising for a memorial to be erected over the grave of the Irish Patriot Denis B. Cashman who died in 1897 and is buried at Holyhood cemetery, Brookline, Massachusetts.
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<div>“...if I had my life to live over I would do it again. I am willing to die for Ireland”
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<div>Denis Bambrick Cashman was born in Dungarvan Co. Waterford in 1843. He joined the Fenian movement also known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), when he was sixteen years old. He rose through the ranks becoming a Fenian Centre for Waterford, meaning that he had the authority to recruit and swear in new members to the organisation. He worked as a law clerk for Dobbyn and Tandy in Waterford before eventually moving to Dublin in the mid 1860’s to continue his Fenian activities.
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<div>Between 1865 and 1867 the British government suppressed the IRB, firstly by arresting the leadership of the organisation when they raided the offices of ‘The Irish People’, the Fenian newspaper in Dublin. Many more were arrested on the word of informers and after the failed rising of March 1867.
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<div>Cashman lived with his wife Catherine at 5 Preston Street, Dublin and with their two sons William and Arthur. It was reported to the police that he had been manufacturing and distributing rifle cartridges for the Fenians which led to his arrest on January 12th, 1867, around the same time as Catherine gave birth to their third son Denis junior.
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<div>Denis Cashman was convicted of treason felony on the 19th of February and sentenced to seven years in prison. He had been given the opportunity to plead guilty to a lesser charge by the prosecuting attorney but replied “No, if I had my life to live over I would do it again. I am willing to die for Ireland”. He spent some time in Millbank prison in England before he was transported to Australia on board the convict ship, Hougoumont at the beginning of October 1867.
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<div>In total there were 280 prisoners transported on board the Hougoumont, 62 of these were Fenians. During the three-month journey to Western Australia the prisoners often complained about the rancid food and water that was being served up to them. Whipping as a form of punishment was common and the preferred method of dealing with indiscipline by the ship’s Captain William Cozens. He forced the other prisoners to watch this brutal punishment and later had them clean up the blood from the ships deck.
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<div>The prisoners had access to pencil and paper which Cashman put to good use on the long voyage to the southern hemisphere. He kept a diary which has proved to be an invaluable source of information of life aboard the Hougoumont. Along with fellow Fenians John Boyle O’Reilly and John Flood they produced a weekly newspaper entitled ‘The Wild Goose’. Cashman was the editor, and the three men wrote poetry for the paper although most of the poems were written by O’Reilly and Flood. The Fenian prisoners would regularly spend their evenings singing and reciting patriotic ballads and poems.
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<div>These pastimes helped take their mind off what lay ahead for them at Freemantle prison to where they were destined. They had been assured by the guards on the ship that Freemantle was an unescapable prison.
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<div>In the last edition of ‘The Wild Goose’ Cashman wrote 'The end of your passage quickly approaches, and already your hearts are beginning to quicken with anticipation at what may be your future in the new land you are fast nearing. I know not what may be in store for you. I cannot pierce the inexorable veil of the future, drawn alike for me and for you; but bidding you a long farewell most likely, however we may wish it, never to meet again, I say to you - Courage, and trust in Providence.'
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<div>Shortly after reaching Freemantle prison, Cashman’s good friend, John Boyle O’Reilly was transferred to Bunbury and assigned with other prisoners to carry out road works. By mid-February 1869 O’Reilly was on his way to America having made good his escape with the help of a catholic priest, Father Patrick McCabe.
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<div>Back home in Ireland an amnesty committee was formed in November 1868 for the purpose of campaigning for the release of Irish political prisoners. The campaign had very significant support throughout Ireland and Britain which led to a gradual release of some prisoners. Denis Cashman was released from Freemantle prison in 1869 with several other Fenians, some of the prisoners returned to Ireland and others including Cashman set sail for San Francisco on board the ship, Baringa, from Sydney. From San Francisco he made his way to Boston where he was reunited with his wife Catherine and their son William. Sadly, their two other sons Arthur and Denis junior has died from measles whilst he was in prison.
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<div>Cashman was also reunited with his friend and fellow Fenian, John Boyle O’Reilly who was living in Boston. O’Reilly helped to secure a job for him working at ‘The Boston Pilot’ newspaper and book publisher. Although he never returned to Ireland, he always kept a keen interest in political events associated with Ireland’s struggle for independence. He was involved with the early planning to rescue Fenian prisoners from Freemantle prison in 1876 which led to six Fenians being rescued and brought to America aboard the Catalpa whaling ship. Cashman wrote the first biography of Michael Davitt, titled ‘The Life of Michael Davitt, with a history of the rise and development of the Irish National Land League’ published in 1881.
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<div>Denis Bambrick Cashman died suddenly at his home on the 8th of January 1897. He is buried at Holyhood cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts with his wife, five of their children and a grandchild. Their grave is a short distance away from that of John Boyle O’Reilly.
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