How John Devoy organised our revolution from the US
NOT long after the great powers of Europe began to mobilise in early August 1914 an aging Irish immigrant emerged from his cheap hotel room in midtown Manhattan. He was headed uptown to the German Club on East 59th Street, where the German ambassador to the US was waiting for him.
The Irishman’s name was John Devoy, a native of county Kildare. In the late summer of 1914, he was nearly 72 years of age, half-deaf, half-blind, and plagued by insomnia.
