His younger brother John acted as office messenger and later devoted his entire adult life to secret work for the IRB.
James O'Connor was responsible for the commercial side of the paper during Rossa's prolonged absences.
He was imprisoned from 1865 onwards along with other Fenians who worked on the paper and was released with them from Portland prison on 4 March 1869.
Constitutional and physical force Nationalists would work together and separately to promote an independent Ireland.
[4] In 1890, O'Connor's wife Mary and four of his daughters – Annie, Aileen, Kathleen and Norah – died after eating poisoned mussels in what became known as the Seapoint tragedy.