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and was returned unopposed in the same seat in 1886. When the Irish Parliamentary Party split in 1890 over Parnell's leadership, O'Kelly supported Parnell. On hearing of the death of Parnell, he called at Walsingham Terrace, Brighton, where the Parnell family was staying, and offered his assistance.
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and, in 1877, he persuaded John Devoy to take a positive approach to the Irish party's policy at Westminster. The following year O'Kelly arranged a meeting between Clan na Gael's William Carroll and Irish parliamentarians. This was flagged as a
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He attended the Home Rule conference in Dublin's Bilton Hotel, 19 May 1870, under the name Mr Martin. In August 1875 he was in Dublin for the Centennial celebrations for Daniel O'Connell and he interviewed
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After his father's death in 1861, the Dublin properties were sold and the family moved to London. James returned to John Lawlor's studio where he worked for two years before departing to join the
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In the 1880s he returned to Ireland, where he pursued an active political career. He was a member of the military council of the IRB. In the
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Kelly went with the French Foreign Legion to Mexico. Around 1865, O'Kelly deserted from the French Foreign Legion and escaped to
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Brittan, Jennifer. "A Foreign Correspondent in the Mambi-Land: James J. O'Kelly's Fugitive Cuba, Fernando Ortiz's Irish Mambí."
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Brian M. Walker (ed.), Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 1978
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Escaping imprisonment by the Spanish in Cuba, Kelly joined the US troops in their campaign to eliminate the
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Roscommon constituencies (1801–1922)
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Paul Townend, 'A Cosmopolitan Nationalist: James Joseph O'Kelly in America,'
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Ireland in an Imperial World: Citizenship, Opportunism and Subversion,
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The Mambi-Land, or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba
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with his brother, Aloysius, a war artist, to report (for the
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O'Kelly won election to the new Roscommon North seat in the
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Moriarty Unmasked: Conan Doyle and an Anglo-Irish Quarrel
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In 1874, he released 791:Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion 561: 473:Niamh O’Sullivan (Fall–Winter 1998). 453:by Tomás Mac Síomóin (Coiscéim 2009) 339:he subsequently lost his seat to an 132:constituency between 1880 and 1916. 38: 24: 507:Daily Chronicle, 9 October 1891, 5 245: 227:O'Kelly reported on the revolt in 144:. His father, John O'Kelly, ran a 58:it lacks sufficient corresponding 25: 812: 801:19th-century Irish businesspeople 796:Irish soldiers in the French Army 288:, were also imprisoned under the 267:Compensation for Disturbance Bill 112:(1845 – 22 December 1916) was an 590:Parliament of the United Kingdom 530:. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2011. 317:. He also published articles in 43: 556:, Carrowmore, 2017, pps 29–30. 549:, Irish Times, 24 August 2009. 501: 466: 457: 442: 425: 416: 407: 394: 381: 323:, a French daily published in 13: 1: 736:Irish Parliamentary Party MPs 374: 135: 367:His brother was the painter 7: 252:UK general election of 1880 166: 10: 817: 193:J. B. 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James Joseph O'Kelly
John J. O'Kelly
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Irish nationalist
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Roscommon
County Roscommon
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Dublin
John Lawlor
French Foreign Legion
Baltimore
John Devoy
New York Herald
The Mambi-Land, or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba
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John O'Connor Power
John O'Connor Power
New Departure
Cuba
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