John Amnesty Nolan
A prominent member of the Fenian Brotherhood. He organised the famous meeting at Cabra, Co. Dublin, at which 200,000 people assembled to demand the release of the Fenian Prisoners, 19th October, 1869.
He is also famous for the ruse whereby he obtained
funds amounting
to £500 to augment the coffers of the
Revolutionary Movement. He organised a great entertainment,
ostensibly for charity, at which the Lord
Lieutenant, Earl Spencer and Lady Spencer, as well as
most of the "nobility and gentry," attended. Thousands
were unable to obtain admission to the
Exhibition
Building, and the Vice-Regal Party was received by
Nolan, Patrick
Egan, and other Fenian leaders. If
his Excellency had only known!
"Amnesty " Nolan was connected with the firm of M'Sweeny, Delany and Co.'s, drapery establishment.
He went to New York, where he died in St. Vincent's Hospital in 1887.
The beautiful monument was erected to his memory by Michael Davitt, one of the Fenian Prisoners whom he helped to release.
Nolan isn't buried here.
