[Gutenberg 12853] • The "Wearing of the Green," or The Prosecuted Funeral Procession

Alexander Martin Sullivan (1830-1884) was an Irish politician, lawyer and journalist from County Cork. Entering into journalism in 1850, Sullivan became assistant- editor of the The Nation, and subsequently editor and proprietor. In conjunction with his elder brother, T. D. Sullivan, he made The Nation one of the most potent factors in the cause Irish Nationalism, and also issued the Weekly News and Zozimus. As a member of the Dublin Corporation he secured a magnificent site for the Grattan Monument, towards which he donated 400, the amount of a subscription by his admirers while he was undergoing imprisonment for a political offence in 1868. He was engaged in many notable trials. His last great case was in 1883 when he was colleague of Lord Russell in the defence of Patrick O'Donnell for the murder of James Carey, an informer. In addition to his labours Alexander Sullivan was a great temperance reformer. He also wrote The Wearing of the Green; or, The Prosecuted Funeral Procession, The Story of Ireland and New Ireland, as well as contributing many sketches to Irish Penny Readings (1879-1885).