[3] Patrick and his brothers may have been involved in the IRB campaign to rescue Kelly and Timothy Deasy from a Manchester police van.
[5] He was awarded the Royal Humane Society's medal in the same year for 'jumping off the Metal Bridge' to save a life.
He was questioned at Dublin Castle, but when a warrant was issued for his arrest on 25 January 1883, he and Kate had fled to New York.
He may have secretly returned to Ireland in 1883 as he is reputed to have taken part in IRB meetings that are believed to have led to the formation of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).
[2] According to his grandson Kevin Boland, he was in attendance, as a member of the already established General Council, at the historic meeting in Hayes' Hotel.
Boland's involvement in the nationalist movement increased and, after the split over Charles Stewart Parnell's leadership of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he became one of the main Parnellite organisers in Dublin.
At Parnell's funeral procession in 1891, he and seven colleagues headed a contingent of 2,000, each wielding a camán (hurley) draped in black.
He also organised the funeral of his friend Pat Nally, a former member of the IRB's Supreme Council with whom Jim had originally conspired in Manchester.
He was also involved in a bombing of the offices of the Parnell's newspaper United Ireland in 1891 following an attempted takeover by Healyites, during which he was struck in the head.