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John Sarsfield Casey Author

John Sarsfield Casey (1846-96) was born in Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, and became involved in the Irish Republican Brotherhood while still at school. He was deported to Australia in 1867. He returned to Ireland in 1870 after an amnesty and remained active in land and nationalist agitation until his death. Casey's The Galtee Boy, an account of his Fenian activities in Cork, has also been published in the Classics of Irish History series. MAIREAD MAUME is a graduate of University College Cork and former teacher. PATRICK MAUME is a researcher with the Dictionary of Irish Biography. MARY CASEY is John Sarsfield Casey's granddaughter.