"The Irish in Film"

The film series concludes on October 23rd with "Rebel Wife" (2023), a documentary about a forgotten revolutionary Mary Jane O'Donovan Rossa, and the centenary of her Fenian husband's death, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa. The film was directed and produced by filmmaker Williams Rossa Cole, the great-grandson of Mary Jane. The film follows her life from her early marriage, motherhood, to her role as a public speaker and fundraiser in the United States for the cause of Irish independence and the plight of her exiled, imprisoned husband. Mary Jane's decision to hold Jeremiah's funeral in Dublin became a political event and believed to have contributed momentum to the 1916 Rising.  She died shortly thereafter in the United States and is buried in Staten Island.