Fundraiser for Fenian John W. Goff Memorial

April 27, 2024 | New York, NY

Please join the Fenian Memorial Committee, its friends, comrades and supporters for this important fundraiser at Jack Diamond’s Pub in New York between 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 27th. The Fenian John Goff was instrumental in the financing and planning  of the great Catalpa Rescue, which saved six military Fenians from a slow death of penal servitude in Western Australia’s infamous Fremantle Prison, where they had already languished for years.

With your help over the years, we have found and placed headstones or memorials at all their graves throughout the USA ( five of them had no headstones), along with that of their “Messenger” Father McCabe, who smuggled Fenian communication in and out of the prison prior to the Catalpa escape, eventually dying in exile in rural Minnesota. John Goff, as you will see in detail in his biographical sketch below, never abandoned the Fenian ideal of a free Ireland while leading a distinguished career as an anti- corruption campaigner and judge in New York. He is buried in Westchester County, N.Y.

A biographical sketch of the Fenian John Goff from the Dictionary of Irish Biography:https://www.dib.ie/biography/goff-john-w-a3509

If you cannot attend this celebration of John Goff’s life and the lives of all Fenians, including a talk by Dr. Ruan O’Donnell–renowned author and commentator on Irish revolutionary history, including the development of the Fenian Brotherhood and the Irish Republican Brotherhood— please donate to our campaign here.

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