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. Thous ands 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.