Anthony Russell
Anthony Russell is the author of Merrion Press’s ‘Between Two Flags: John Mitchel and Jenny Verner’ and co-editor of IAP’s ‘John Mitchel Ulster and the Great Famine’. He was the prime mover in bringing the 2015 National Famine Commemoration to Newry and was Director of the associated International Famine Conference ‘John Mitchel: The Legacy of the Great Famine.’ He is the author of ‘The Trial of P. H. Pearse before the Court of History’ and ‘The Trial of James Craig before the Court of History’, both of which have played across Ireland and Canada and both of which feature John Mitchel as a lawyer. He is the Director of the exhibition: ‘D’Arcy McGee: Irish Rebel – Canadian Patriot’ in Carlingford.
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