Category:John Keegan Casey

**John Keegan Casey**
	Irish writer
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Date of birth	1846
Date of death	17 March 1870
Place of burial	Glasnevin Cemetery;
Country of citizenship	Republic of Ireland;
Occupation	poet; songwriter;
Member of	Irish Republican Brotherhood;
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English: John Keegan "Leo" Casey (1846 – March 17, 1870), known as the Poet of the Fenians, was an Irish poet, orator and republican who was famous as the writer of the song "The Rising of the Moon" and as one of the central figures in the Fenian Rising of 1867. He was imprisoned by the English and died on St. Patrick's Day in 1870.