William Rooney
and Arthur Griffith
(who later that year joined MG
in founding the Transvaal Committee
) launched an Irish nationalist weekly, the United Irishman. In this they had financial backing from Gonne, who...
Family and Intimate relationships
Maud Gonne
He had dashingly headed the Irish Brigade
that fought in the Boer War on the anti-British side; Gonne had supported the Boers and the Irish Brigade by founding the Transvaal Committee
. The marriage was...
Timeline
7 October 1899: The Transvaal Committee was founded by Irish...
National or international item
7 October 1899
The Transvaal Committee
was founded by Irish nationalists in support of the Boers.
Ward, Margaret. Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism. Pluto, 1983.
