Soldier, Fenian, and patriot: Recounting the life Cork's Ricard O’Sullivan Burke

Ricard O’Sullivan Burke from Cork: adventurer, soldier, engineer. One hundred and fifty years ago, he awaited trial at the Old Bailey. Robert Hume recounts his interesting life.

When Ricard was a small boy — youngest of 12 children — his family was evicted from their home in Clounyreague, Kinneigh, West Cork, where he was born in 1838.