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John Kenny (Clan-na-Gael)
John Kenny (1847–1924) long-time member and multi-term president (1883, 1914) of the Clan-na-Gael in New York, which supplied support to the rebels in Ireland, culminating in the Easter Rising. Under the cover of personal and business trips, he served as liaison between the "Home Office" (the Irish Republican Brotherhood in Ireland) and the New York Clan-na-Gael. In 1914 he served as the Clan's (envoy to Berlin ) to present the Clan's proposal that Germany sell arms to the Irish, who would then stage a rebellion against their common enemy, England . On his return to New York he stopped in Dublin to inform Thomas Clarke.〔John Devoy, Recollections of an Irish Rebel (Shannon Ireland: Irish University Press, 1969) 403–404.〕〔Peter DeRosa, Rebels – The Irish Rising of 1916 (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1990) 41.〕 He returned to Ireland to deliver money for the guns and to bring back messages from the I.R.B.〔John Devoy, Recollections of an Irish Rebel (Shannon Ireland: Irish University Press, 1969) 403–404.〕
==Early Life – Clan-na-Gael 1871–1885==
John Kenny was born in 1847 in Kilcock, County Kildare, to a family of wealthy farmers. After a successful stint in gold mining in Australia, he emigrated to New York in 1870, where he joined the Irish-American organisation Napper Tandy, the New York branch of the Clan-na-Gael. Kenny played a major role in the Catalpa rescue, the Clan-na-Gael's rescue of six Irish prisoners in 1873 from British prison in Fremantle, Western Australia.〔"John Kenny, Irish Patriot, is Dead at 77." The Gaelic American 23 January 1925〕 The rescue is credited with having breathed new life into the Irish organisations in America, which at the time were in disarray following several failed ventures.
As president of the Clan-na-Gael in 1882, Kenny swore in 23-year-old new-comer Thomas B. Clarke, who was elected the organizational secretary. Thus began their lifelong friendship, lasting 34 years until Clarke's execution as a leader of the Easter Rising.
In 1883 Kenny passed along Clarke's offer to volunteer for the Clan-na-Gaels' bombing campaign in London. Clarke's offer was accepted. The campaign, devised by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, failed and Clarke ended up serving fifteen and a half years in British prisons.〔Kenny, John. "Clan-na-Gael's Policy Vindicated by Clarke." The Gaelic American 1/12/1924.〕
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