Irish exiles: "The Cuba five". Library of Congress description: "Print shows John Devoy (far left), standing, Charles Underwood O'Connell, (second from left) seated, Harry Mulleda (center), standing, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, (second from right) seated, and John McClure (far right) standing, the five Irish Fenian prisoners who under general amnesty were released by the British to America on Jan. 5 1871, and were shipped together aboard the Cuba. Printed below the image are signatures of each of the men along with two stanzas of a poem which begins: 'They hither came with confidence, They hither came in banishment.'"
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