Seamus McBride
1822 – 1865
Second President of the League of Ass Kickers
Seamus McBride (pronounced Shay-mus) was born in the city of Cork, Ireland in 1831. He was the youngest of a family of seventeen and left home at a very young age (10) to pursue his dream of becoming a travelling vagrant. Little is known of this charasmatic and enigmatic individual. Sources say that he lived under the pseudonym Martin McBride and Sean Porridge while travelling Europe for much of his adolescent life.
Seamus returned to Ireland in 1849 where after a series of heroic rescues in Killarney, the vagrant was raised as a hero and lauded among the locals. McBride was inagurated as The League’s second president shortly thereafter and began a series of reforms which pulled it back from extinction. Scandal followed. Charges of arson and mayhem drove McBride into seclusion within the League and there he organized a more progressive platform.
He was married to Patricia Scott Dervish in 1857. Shown at right is a rare picture of McBride with his youngest of seven.
In 1864 McBride drafted the official League bylaws which we hold to this day.
He died tragically and before his time in 1865 in a dynamite fight.
1822 – 1865
Second President of the League of Ass Kickers
Seamus McBride (pronounced Shay-mus) was born in the city of Cork, Ireland in 1831. He was the youngest of a family of seventeen and left home at a very young age (10) to pursue his dream of becoming a travelling vagrant. Little is known of this charasmatic and enigmatic individual. Sources say that he lived under the pseudonym Martin McBride and Sean Porridge while travelling Europe for much of his adolescent life.
Seamus returned to Ireland in 1849 where after a series of heroic rescues in Killarney, the vagrant was raised as a hero and lauded among the locals. McBride was inagurated as The League’s second president shortly thereafter and began a series of reforms which pulled it back from extinction. Scandal followed. Charges of arson and mayhem drove McBride into seclusion within the League and there he organized a more progressive platform.
He was married to Patricia Scott Dervish in 1857. Shown at right is a rare picture of McBride with his youngest of seven.
In 1864 McBride drafted the official League bylaws which we hold to this day.
He died tragically and before his time in 1865 in a dynamite fight.