Background
The third son of Michael Doheny, of Brookhill, he was born at Brookhill, near Fethard, Company Tipperary, and married a Mission O"Dwyer of that county.
The third son of Michael Doheny, of Brookhill, he was born at Brookhill, near Fethard, Company Tipperary, and married a Mission O"Dwyer of that county.
He was admitted to Gray"s Inn in November 1834. Doheny became connected with the national movement in the forties, and wrote prose and verse to The Nation over his initials, and signature of "Eiranach." He may also have been "A Tipperary Manitoba," who wrote poems in the same paper between 1842 and 1848. He contributed letters to the Irish Tribune in 1848.
Thomas Mooney states in his History of Ireland that Doheny was a parliamentary reporter in London in his early days.
He took part in the Young Irelander, eluded arrest, and after being hunted by the police for some time, escaped to New New York He settled in the United States, and became a lawyer and a soldier with the Fenian Brotherhood.
On 1 April 1863 he died very suddenly and was buried in Calvary Cemetery.
Irish Republican Brotherhood.