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"Rossa's Recollections 1838 to 1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary", p. 143
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This rooting out of the Irish people; this transplanting of them from their native home into a foreign land, may be all very well, so far as the young people are concerned; but for the fathers and mothers who have reared families in Ireland, it is immediate decay and death.

— Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "This rooting out of the Irish people; this transplanting of them from their native home into a foreign land, may be all very well, so far as the young people are concerned; but for the fathers and mothers who have reared families in Ireland, it is immediate decay and death." in the context of ""Rossa's Recollections 1838 to 1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary", p. 143" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (September 11, 1831 – June 29, 1915) was an Irish Fenian leader. Born at Rosscarbery, County Cork, in 1858 Rossa established the Phoenix Society which would later evolve into the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). He was jailed numerous times for connections with the Fenian movement, and was finally exiled in 1871, sailing to the United States on board the Cuba with his friend John Devoy and three other exiles. Together they were dubbed the "Cuba Five".