page_title: John Devoy
section_title: American years
hierarchical_section_title: John Devoy / American years
caption_attribution_description: Irish exiles: "The Cuba five". Library of Congress description: "Print shows John Devoy (far left), standing, Charles Underwood O'Connell, (second from left) seated, Harry Mulleda (center), standing, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, (second from right) seated, and John McClure (far right) standing, the five Irish Fenian prisoners who under general amnesty were released by the British to America on Jan. 5 1871, and were shipped together aboard the Cuba. Printed below the image are signatures of each of the men along with two stanzas of a poem which begins: 'They hither came with confidence, They hither came in banishment.'"
context_page_description: John Devoy was an Irish rebel leader and exile. He owned and edited the Gaelic American, a New York weekly newspaper, 1903–1928. Devoy dedicated over 60 years of his life to the cause of Irish independence. He was one of the few people to have played a role in the rebellion of 1867, the 1916 Rising and the Irish War of Independence.
context_section_description: In January 1871, he was released and exiled to the United States as one of the "Cuba Five". He received an address of welcome from the House of Representatives. Devoy became a journalist for the New York Herald and was active in Clan na Gael. Under Devoy's leadership, Clan na Gael became the central Irish republican organisation in the United States. In 1877 he aligned the organisation with the Irish Republican Brotherhood in Ireland.
  In 1875, Devoy and John Boyle O'Reilly organised the escape of six Fenians from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia aboard the ship Catalpa. In 1879, Devoy returned to Ireland to inspect Fenian centres and met Charles Kickham, John O'Leary and Michael Davitt en route in Paris; he convinced Davitt and Charles Stewart Parnell to co-operate in the "New Departure" during the growing Land War.
caption: "The Cuba Five"From left to right: John Devoy, Charles Underwood O'Connell, Henry (Harry) Mullady, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, and John McClure.
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