arrest head centre James Stephens 1865 Irish Republican O’Leary O’Donovan Kickham
On the 15 July 1865 American-made plans for a rising in Ireland were discovered when the emissary lost them at Kingstown railway station. They found their way to Dublin Castle and to Superintendent Daniel Ryan head of G Division. Ryan had an informer within the offices of the Irish People named Pierce Nagle, he supplied Ryan with an “action this year” message on its way to the IRB unit in Tipperary. With this information, Ryan raided the offices of the Irish People on Thursday 15 September, followed by the arrests of O’Leary, Luby and O’Donovan Rossa. Kickham was caught after a month on the runJames Stephens (26 January 1825 - 28 April 1901) was an Irish Republican and the founding member of an originally unnamed revolutionary organisation in Dublin on 17 March 1858, later to become known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood (), also referred to as the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood by contemporaries. In the autumn of 1857, a messenger, Owen Considine arrived from New York with a message for Stephens from members of the Emmet Monument Association, calling on him to get up an organization in Ireland. Considine also carried a private letter from O’Mahony to Stephen’s which was a warning as to the condition of the organisation in New York, which was overlook by Luby and Stephens at the time. Both had believed that there was a strong organisation behind the letter, only later to find it was a number of loosely linked groups. On the 23 December Stephen's dispatched Joseph Denieffe to America with his reply which was disguised as a business letter, and dated and addressed from Paris. In his reply Stephen’s outline his conditions and his requirements from the organisation in America. Stephens demanded uncontrolled power and £100 a month for the first three months. Denieffe returned on the 17 March 1858 with the acceptance of Stephens terms and £80. Denieffe also reported that there was no actual organized body of sympathizers in New York but merely a loose knot of as
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