James Thomas Clarke Alias Henry Wilson

James Thomas (Tom) Clarke (11 March 1857-3 May 1916).

It was an Irish revolutionary leader and arguably the person most responsible for the 1916 Easter uprising.
Born in the Isle of Wight, and his father, James Clarke, was a sergeant in the British Army. His family soon moved to Dungannon, county of Tyrone, Ireland.
At the age of 18 James joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and in 1883 was sent to London to fly as London Bridge parte Explosives Bell encouraged by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, one of the leaders exile, the IRB in the United States.
Clarke was arrested soon, under the alias of "Henry Wilson", along with several scammers. He was tried and sentenced to hard labor for life on May 28, 1883.
Subsequently, step 15 in Pentonville and other British prisons. In 1896, he was one of five Fenian prisoners in British jails and a series of public meetings in Ireland called for his release. In one such meeting, John Redmond, leader of the National League Parnellite Ireland, said:
"Wilson is a man for whom noh enough words of praise, I learned in my many visits to Portland During the five Jahr Honoring love and respect Henry Wilson.'ve Seen day after day as a brave spirit kept him alive. .. I've seen year after year the fading of his physical strength. " Henry Wilson, as historian Dermot Meleady said, was the alias of Tom Clarke.
After his release in 1898 he moved to Brooklyn in the United States, where he married Kathleen Daly, 21 years his junior, whose uncle, John Daly, had met in prison.
In 1906 the couple moved to a farm of 30 acres in Manorville, New York and bought another 30 acres in 1907 shortly before returning to Ireland that year.
In Ireland snuff opened a shop in Dublin and plunged into the IRB, which was undergoing a major rejuvenation under the guidance of the younger men, as Bulmer Hobson and Denis McCullough.