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Patrick Sarsfield Cassidy was an Irish American journalist, poet and revolutionary.
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Born circa 1850 in either Dunkineely, Donegal or Sligo, Ireland and died Christchurch, New Zealand in 1903. He emigrated to America at the age of 16.
He was a pioneering journalist worked as business editor of the New York Sunday Mercury.
He became head of the Fenian Council in 1886 after a power struggle with O'Donovan Rossa in which Rossa accused him of being an agent provocateur for the British. Cassidy was chiefly famous for his exposure of O'Donovan Rossa.
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