Background
He was born in Castlemahon, County Limerick.
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Michael Scanlon
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He was known as the "Fenian poet" and is remembered as the author of stirring Irish ballads such as the "Bold Fenian Men" and "The Jackets Green". They started a sweets (candy) business which became very successful. Scanlon joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood and wrote articles and poems for a number of newspapers.
After the failure of that enterprise he was appointed editor of a new newspaper, the Irish Republic, and he continued writing for Irish and American newspapers.
He later became a senior official in the American administration in Washington. In 1887 he was appointed chief of the Bureau of Statistics in the State Department.
He retired in 1912. He died, aged eighty-four years, in the hospital of Saint Mary of Nazareth in Chicago, after having been ill for a week.
Membership
Irish Republican Brotherhood]
He supported the Fenian invasion of Canada (31 May 1866), following the leadership of William R. Roberts, and was a member of a body known as the Senate.
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Nationality
Irish