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John Bulmer Hobson (14 January 1883 – 8 August 1969) was an Irish republican. He was a leading member of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) before the Easter Rising in 1916. Hobson swore Patrick Pearse into membership of the IRB in late 1913. He opposed and attempted to prevent the Easter Rising.
Dec 10, 2013 · Bulmer Hobson recalls the founding meeting of the Volunteers and the early ...more. Óglaigh na hÉireann - Bulmer Hobson Interview, RTÉ, 1963, RTÉ Archives.
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Bulmer Hobson, who died 50 years ago on August 8th, was one of those rare birds – from a northern Protestant background, he became deeply involved in advanced Irish nationalism in the first part...
Dec 6, 2013 · Óglaigh na hÉireann - Bulmer Hobson Interview, RTÉ, 1963, RTÉ Archives.Bulmer Hobson discusses the impact of Edward Carson and the Ulster Volunteers in chang...
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Hobson, (John) Bulmer (1883–1969), nationalist, was born 14 January 1883 at 5 Magdala Street, Belfast, the son of Benjamin Hobson, a grocer who was from a quaker family established in Ireland since the time of Cromwell, and his wife, Mary Ann Bulmer, a Yorkshire radical.
Prior to the 1916 Easter Rising, Bulmer Hobson (1883–1969) was one of the leading propagandists and organisers within the advanced nationalist movement in Ireland. 2 As a Sinn Féin propagandist, he was second only to Arthur Griffith.
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Jun 25, 2009 · THIS IS the first biography of Bulmer Hobson, the leading Irish republican who fell from grace in 1916. After a long career building the separatist movement first in the North and then...
