Sinn Fein played no role in the Easter Rising

It was little surprise that Sinn Féin, as part of its determined effort to highjack the 1916 commemoration, held its own August 1 event at the Glasnevin grave of Jeremiah O’ Donovan Rossa.

This blatant attempt to exploit the life, death and burial of O’Donovan Rossa tells us clearly that Sinn Féin respects neither truth nor historical fact.

Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa lived in the United States of America from 1870 until his death, in June, 1915, with the exception of two brief visits to Ireland, in 1894 and 1904.