Later Life in Dublin
On the expiry of his 20-year prison term and therefore of the conditions associated with his release, he returned to Ireland in 1885. He and his sister, the poet Ellen O'Leary, both became important figures within Dublin cultural and nationalist circles which included W. B. Yeats, Maud Gonne, Rose Kavanagh, Rosa Mulholland, George Sigerson, and Katharine Tynan. He also functioned as an elder statesman of the separatist movement, being active in the Young Ireland Society and acting as president of the Irish Transvaal Committee which supported the Boer side in the Boer War.
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