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Cuban Five

The Cuban Five, also known as the Miami Five are five Cuban intelligence officers convicted in Miami of conspiracy to commit espionage, conspiracy to commit murder, and other illegal activities in the United States...

 for Cubans currently held in Miami prisons.

The Cuba Five were a group of Irish

Ireland

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 rebels

Rebellion

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 released from British

United Kingdom

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 prison

Prison

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s in 1871 on condition of not entering Britain until the expiration of their original sentences. They chose to accept exile

Exile

Exile means to be away from one's home , while either being explicitly refused permission to return and/or being threatened with imprisonment or death upon return...

 in the United States

United States

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, travelling on board the ship Cuba. The five men were John Devoy

John Devoy

John Devoy was an Irish rebel leader and exile.-Early life:Devoy was born near Kill, County Kildare. In 1861 he travelled to France with an introduction from T. D. Sullivan to John Mitchel...

, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa , was an Irish Fenian leader and prominent member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. His life as an Irish Fenian is well documented but he is perhaps known best in death for the graveside oration given at his funeral by Pádraig Pearse.-Life in Ireland:He was born at...

, Charles Underwood O'Connell, Henry Mulleda, and John McClure. On arrival in New York they received a rapturous welcome and attempted to reunite the badly split Fenian Brotherhood

Fenian Brotherhood

The Fenian Brotherhood was an Irish republican organization founded in the United States in 1858 by John O'Mahony and Michael Doheny. It was a precursor to Clan na Gael, a sister organization to the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Members were commonly known as "Fenians"...

. In this they failed, but Devoy and O'Donovan Rossa were to go on to become probably the most outstanding members of the Fenian movement in the USA in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Sources

• Terry Golway, Irish Rebel: John Devoy and America's Fight for Ireland's Freedom, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998