Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa: 

From Cork to New York, the Fenian whose funeral is now seen as a dry run for the Easter Rising, will be well remembered this summer on the centenary of his death.

President Michael D Higgins will visit Skibbereen on June 11 in the first of many commemorative events being organised by people in West Cork anxious to celebrate their native, Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa.

The funeral of O’Donovan Rossa on August 1, 1915, is best remembered for “the fools, the fools” line in the graveside oration of Pádraig Pearse, who would become the iconic figure of the 1916 Rising.