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Facsimile issue of the first edition published in 1929, in this edition from Irish University Press, Shannon.
At age nineteen John Devoy was sworn into the Fenian movement and later signed the National Petition, a plebiscite for self-determination for the Irish people. During the same year of 1861 Devoy served with the French Foreign Legion in Algeria. On his return to Ireland he was appointed by the Fenian leader, James Stephens, to the position of Fenian organiser in the Naas area and later as chief organiser of Irishmen serving in the British Army in Ireland. He spent 57 years as a political exile in America, returning in 1924 for a six week tour. On his return he began writing his memoirs ‘Recollections of an Irish Rebel.’ He died at the age of 86, in 1928.
Issued simultaneously with the paperback edition .
Condition - solid in dark purple cloth, with title in gold to spine. Previous owner's name to front endpage, no other marks noted. Ghostmark from a removed sticker on the front cover.
