Fenian Devoy’s chair used when writing memoir is donated to the State

John Devoy, on right in black hat, welcomed by Minister for External Affairs Desmond FitzGerald on his first visit to Ireland in 45 years after arriving at Cobh on July 28, 1924.

A chair in which Fenian and Clan na Gael politician John Devoy sat while writing his memoirs in New York a century ago is being donated to the State.

Devoy, the Clan na Gael leader in the US, wrote the memoir at the age of 82 while living in an apartment with two Monaghan sisters, Alice Carragher Comiskey and Lily Carragher. The women’s grandnephew, Frank MacGabhann, is now donating the chair to the State, through Kildare County Council.