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| | Fenian Brotherhood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Fenians under O'Neill's command crossed the Canadian frontier near Franklin, Vermont, but were dispersed by a single volley from Canadian volunteers; while O'Neill himself was promptly arrested by the United States authorities acting under the orders of President Ulysses S. Grant. | | | In December 1867, O'Neill became president of the Roberts faction of the Fenian Brotherhood, which in the following year held a great convention in Philadelphia attended by over 400 properly accredited delegates, while 6,000 Fenian soldiers, armed and in uniform, paraded the streets. | | | After a convention held at Chicago, Illinois under O'Mahony's presidency in November 1863, the American wing of the movement began to become effective. |
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| | The Fenian Movement |
| | The Fenians were members of the so-called Fenian movement in Ireland and elsewhere, though primarily America and England. | | | The activities of the Fenians were partly responsible for spurring William Gladstone into his stated mission – "to pacify Ireland". | | | The Irish Republican Brotherhood was the most famous of the parts that made up the Fenian movement. |
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| | Ireland's OWN: History |
| | Despite all the efforts of the Fenian's counsel, Ernest Jones, the court found the men guilty of murder and they were all sentenced to death. | | | The trials of the remaining incarcerated Fenian leaders (Kickham, Rossa, O'Leary, Luby) caused great uproar throughout the country when renowned (and widely hated) conservative Catholic judge William Keogh was appointed to try their cases. | | | In America, John O'Mahoney was deposed from his position as leader of the US Fenians and a split in the organisation occurred gradually. |
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| | The Fenian Raids |
| | Fenianism was the name given to the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). | | | The Fenians had been used as a pawn by the American government and had terribly underestimated the strength of the British (Canadian) forces. | | | On the 6th of June, US President Johnson made a deal with the British, having received $15,000,000 reparation payment for losses incurred during the American Civil War as a result of the British partiality to the South. |
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| | The Fenians -- Characters -- History -- Fremantle Prison |
| | The Fenian movement, or Irish Republican Brotherhood, was a secret society that flourished during the 1860s. | | | Found guilty at his court martial, his death sentence was commuted to one of 20 year's penal servitude which automatically meant transportation (anyone sentenced to seven years or more was transported). | | | He sailed, along with 280 other convicts — 62 of them Fenians — on board the Hougoumont from Portland in October 1867. |
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| | Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 63, FENIANS: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | In October, 1865, a general convention of Fenians was held at New York, which was to inaugurate the establishment of an independent republic on Irish soil. | | | In this case, too, the head of the conspirators was caught and suffered the penalty of death. | | | In the spring of 1864, the first contributions, from the proceeds of the great fair held in Chicago, toward a military fund, were made; and in the fall of the same year a second Fenian convention was held in Chicago, which was attended by delegates from all the states from New York to California. |
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| | The Turner Brigade: Features: Battle of Ridgeway Reenactment |
| | We were beginning our eighth year as reenactors when we saw the announcement of the 135th reenactment of the "Fenian Raid" in the December issue of Camp Chase Gazette; we vowed to attend. | | | His force contained elements of the 7th, 13th, 17th and 18th Fenian Regiments, and an independent Company from Terre Haute, Ind. They came from New York, Nashville, Louisville, Cleveland, and Terre Haute. | | | During the Civil War, he served as an officer with the 7th Michigan Cavalry and the 15th Colored Infantry. |
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| | Fenians |
| | Winning one county final in Kilkenny is a great feat but to be one away from a three in a row in the post-parish-rule era was breathtaking. | | | This wrangle delayed the county final to the following April and with it went the Fenians’ hopes of a senior championship.. | | | And, although James Stephens were firm favourites, the Fenians were quietly confident. |
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| | Celtic Myth and Legend: The Gaelic Gods: Chapter XIV. Finn and the Fenians |
| | At the fourth, stood Cuan with the Fenians of Munster, Diarmait's native province. | | | This was against the lie of the bristles; and one of them pierced Diarmait's heel, and inflicted a poisoned and mortal wound. | | | Wishing for a wife in his old age, he sent to seek Grainne, the daughter of Cormac, the High-King of Ireland. |
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| | THE FENIANS 1867 |
| | Hundreds of men were arrested and sentenced to long prison terms, including Thomas Clarke, one of the signatories of the 1916 Declaration. | | | Burke and forty men were captured and held in the Tipperary Town Bridewell Gaol for a week before being sent to Clonmel for trial. | | | Stephens had been wounded in the Rising in Ballinagarry, County Tipperary but had later escaped to Paris where he had met O'Mahony. |
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| | Fenians |
| | Fenians, members of a movement initiated in 1857 by Irish-Americans to secure Irish independence from Britain. | | | Their titular chief, James Stephens, organized an underground movement in Ireland with the aid of funds collected by his American deputy, John O'Mahony. | | | A small group of Canadian Fenians was headed initially by Michael Murphy of Toronto, who supported the O'Mahony wing. |
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http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0002758
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| | Celtic League American Branch - This Month in Celtic History: June 2001 |
| | Taking its name from the Fianna, the warrior-guardians of ancient Gaelic Ireland, the Fenians were conceived as a trans-Atlantic revolutionary conspiracy, drawing much of its strength and resources from the Irish immigrant community in the United States. | | | Soon more and better crown forces were converging on southern Ontario, but the end came when US President Andrew Johnson’s administration decided they had gotten their snit’s revenge and moved to seal the border and interdict the flow of men and supplies to the Fenians in Canada. | | | 1 June 1866: American Fenians under General John O’Neill invade Canada and capture Fort Erie. |
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| | The other Fenian leaders were tried in December on a charge of high treason and sentenced to penal servitude. | | | Within two years after, that terrible incubus upon Ireland, the Established (English) Church was disestablished, and within three years the first Land Act of the century, the Act of ’70 was made law. | | | The invasion of Canada, which would undoubtedly have been a successful action of the American Government, which, having tacitly encouraged the scheme, and permitted the plans to be ripened, stepped in at the last moment to prevent it. |
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| | Fenian movement on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Points of View: Is this the final act of the Fenian phase?(Comment) | | | The Fenian movement in America had a career of its own. | | | The Church, the State, and the Fenian Threat, 1861-75. |
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| | The Irish Invasion of Canada |
| | The Convention endorsed a constitution, elected as first I.R.B. President Fenian founder John O’Mahoney (a former Colonel in the 69th New York of the Irish Brigade), and set up various provisional government agencies including a Congress and a Cabinet. | | | While the Irish resented the President’s involvement in their plans, they did not act solely because of Johnson’s decree. | | | While known as Fenians during the Civil War, the military arm of the Brotherhood which was to be established after the War, was to be known as the Irish Republican Army (the I.R.A.) the letters emblazoned on the buttons of their green Civil-War-style uniforms. |
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| | The Fenians |
| | It had its roots in both the United States and Ireland and was popularly known as The Fenian Movement, in honour of the Fianna, the ancient Irish warriors. | | | A friend of James Stephens, John O'Mahoney (also of the Young Ireland movement) started the Fenian Movement in the United States at about the same time. | | | It has been suggested that the threat of the Fenians was a major cause for the union of provinces into the confederation that became Canada. |
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| | Irish Books Online - TownHouse Dublin, Ireland: Fenians, The by Michael Kenny |
| | The official title of the organisation whose members became known as 'The Fenians' was the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), founded in 1858. | | | The spread of the two organisations ushered in a new era in the growth of Irish politics and had a profound influence of subsequent political developments. | | | The Fenians did not confine their activities to Ireland. |
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| | ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Fenians |
| | Fenians, 19th-century nationalist revolutionary movement for the freedom of Ireland from Great Britain and for the establishment of an independent... | | | Gaelic Literature, literature, both oral and written, in the Gaelic languages of Ireland and Scotland. |
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| | Fenian Raid into Canada, 1866 |
| | - Fenian Senator Patrick Bannon - a terra cotta manufacturer in Louisville who was a financial backer "worth $100,000"; Bannon accompanied the Kentucky Fenians but not as a soldier. | | | The following letter is one of several written by Fenian senators immediately after the June 1866 raid, when they were asked to begin again with matters of Brotherhood business. This one went from Louisville merchant Patrick Bannon to Phildelphian John Gibbons. | | | Fenian Senator JW Fitzgerald -- 30-year-old redheaded attorney who owned a large grocery business in Cincinnati; Fitzgerald and Senator Scanlan arrived in Buffalo carrying orders for the Fenian soldiers. |
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| | To The Irish Men and Fenians of Iowa - 1867 |
| | Boston, March 2- A great meeting of the friends of Irish nationality was held last night in Faneuil Hall under the auspices of the Fenian Brotherhood, at which speeches were made by Col. Mahoney, the head center of the Brotherhood of the U.S., Capt. R.R. Walsh, of Pa., and A.P. Sinnett, of Boston. | | | Address all letters to Capt. W.H. Grace, Box 1591 Dubuque, or in care of | | | One is styled the Fenian Brotherhood and the second is the Brotherhood of St. Patrick. |
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| | Fenians |
| | The Irish-Canadian politician D'Arcy McGee was murdered in 1868 by a man who was believed to be a Fenian. | | | Fenians were members of a secret society, the Fenian Brotherhood, which was formed by Irish Americans around 1858 and had branches in the United States and Ireland. | | | In the mid-1860s the Fenians seemed a serious threat, for about 10 000 of them were experienced soldiers who had fought in the American Civil War. |
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| | Fenian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It can also specifically refer to members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, founded in Ireland by James Stephens and others. | | | The Fenian Brotherhood, the IRB's American branch, was founded in 1858 by John O'Mahony, Michael Doheny (1805–1863), and Stephens, to gain Irish-American support for armed rebellion in Ireland. | | | Fenian is a term used since the 1860s for an Irish nationalist who espouses or is perceived to espouse violence against British rule, usually by people opposed to their aims. |
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| | Leodis - Coat-of-Arms |
| | Fenians - the short title of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a nationalist movement founded in New York in 1857. | | | In March 1866 rumours, untrue, circulated that the Irish were planning an uprising in the town on St Patrick's Day. | | | In September 1865 James McCarthy, a workman at Lawsons engineers in Mabgate, was brought before the mayor, it being suspected that he was the Secretary of the Leeds Fenian Society. |
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| | Fenian Raid on Canada |
| | Telegrams from St. Albans state that the Fenians entered Canada from Franklin, Vermont and attacked Freligsburg, defeating the Canadian military in a skirmish with a loss of several killed and wounded. | | | It is reported that many Fenians are returning to St. Albans. | | | Moseby, Confederate guerrilla, is here raising cavalry forces. |
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| | Finding Aid for the Fenian Brotherhood Records at ACUA |
| | Rossa also owned and managed a hotel in Manhattan.Even after the Fenians had ceased to operate, Rossa was an outspoken critic of the British occupation of Ireland.He ran for NY State Senate in 1871, but lost in a closely contested and questionable election. | | | Rossa toured the country performing readings of his books and giving recounts of his involvement in the Fenians and his fight against the British. | | | This includes proceedings of Fenian Conventions, versions of the Fenian Constitution, versions of the Fenian By-Laws, and speeches made to the organization. |
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| | Fenians Home Page |
| | Fenians' (a word derived from Fianna) was the name commonly applied to the members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a revolutionary movement founded in 1858. | | | The Flags of the famous Irish Brigade of the American Civil War were inspired by and patterned after the Fenian Flag. | | | Members of the IRB continued to operate in secret after the unsuccessful 1867 Rising but had little occasion to use the flags thereafter. |
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| | Military Trivia |
| | Their units included the 13th Tennessee Regiment, the 17th Kentucky Regiment, 18th Ohio Regiment, The 7th New York Regiment, and the Indiana Detachment. | | | The Fenians organized themselves much as they had during the Civil War. | | | The United States, concerned that the Fenians might get it involved in a new war with Britain, finally had to take notice of the raids and put an end to most of them (the last raid was in 1871). |
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| | The Fenian Movement |
| | year he sailed to America, where O'Mahony became leader of a new organisation called the Fenian Brotherhood. | | | On 17 March 1858, he formed in Dublin the secret society which became known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood. | | | In 1863 his decision to found a weekly newspaper, the Irish People, was criticised by O'Mahony, who preferred secrecy. |
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| | The Fenians |
| | of State Willam Seward), it is hoped, will wink at connivance between American citizens and the Fenian conquerors. | | | For Gen. O'Neil later admitted that only 600 men were at his side at 3:30 a.m. | | | The same year the Fenians, a group of Irish revolutionaries, during a New York City convention, laid plans for invading Canada. |
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| | Fenian Song (I), A |
| | In the aftermath of the Civil War, when the U.S. and Britain were not on the best of terms over the Alabama Claims and the like, the Fenians conceived the idea of invading Canada and holding it hostage for Ireland's freedom. | | | 143-144, by 1866 the American Fenians were split into two groups, one led by John O'Mahony, the other by the more radical Thomas Sweeney. | | | The Fenians were an organization devoted to freeing Ireland. |
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| | Fenians, Band of Rogues and Have Fun or Get Out! |
| | By the way, The Fenians may be based in southern California, but they crisscross the United States and visit Ireland. | | | Bobby Sands's 'Back Home in Derry' is a beautifully sad song that The Fenians do justice to. | | | Out of Orange County, California, The Fenians perform traditional Celtic music, as well as some more contemporary folks songs with a strong, modern, almost rock and reel beat. |
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| | The Invincibles blow up the prison at Clerkenwell, snatch their friends from the hands of the police at Manchester and kill the escort, stab to death in broad daylight the English Chief Secretary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and the Under-secretary, Burke, in Phoenix Park, Dublin. | | | This party under different names: 'White Boys', 'Men of '98', 'United Irishmen', 'Invincibles', 'Fenians', has always refused to be connected with either the English political parties or the Nationalist parliamentarians. | | | The new Fenians are joined in a party which is called Sinn Fein (We Ourselves).l They aim to make Ireland a bi-lingual Republic, and to this end they have established a direct steamship service between Ireland and France. |
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| | RootsWeb: Genealogy Mailing Lists: Ireland : FENIANS |
| | Topic: A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in the history of the Fenian Brotherhood and the Irish revolutionary movement that was formed in 1857 and continued on until the 1870s. | | | There is a Web page for the FENIANS mailing list at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mruddy/fenian1.htm. | | | For questions about this list, contact the list administrator at FENIANS-admin@rootsweb.com. |
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| | FENIANS |
| | New member Dave Burnett on sax, flute, and whistles is an exciting addition, and long-time members Rob Williams (guitar), Brendan Harkins (bass) and Chris Pierce (drums), all of whom sing (Pierce particularly well), are as strong and languid as ever. | | | The Fenians are already well-known for the rollicking, good-time sound they've been bringing to the pubs of Orange County for years, as evidenced by their previous CD's of mostly live material. | | | But this new studio CD brings them up to the next level, more in keeping with the nationally known combo they've become. |
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| | Fenians -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Among the exiles both in the United States and in England, the Fenian movement spread widely. | | | founder of the American branch of the Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish nationalist secret society active in Britain and the United States during the mid-19th century (see Fenian). | | | Irish revolutionary society that flourished about 1861–72; sought to end English rule in Ireland; active in the United States and made unsuccessful raids into Canada 1866–70; failure in direct results, but instrumental in convincing Gladstone and others of the need for reforms; name derived from Fianna, legendary band of heroes led by Finn MacCool |
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| | Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies: The Fenians in Montreal, 1862-68: invasion, intrigue, and assassination (1).@ ... |
| | DURING the winter of 1865-66 reports reached the Canadian government that the Fenians--the physical-force Irish republican revolutionaries with their headquarters in New York--were planning to invade British North America. | | | After a stormy convention in Philadelphia and an acrimonious dispute over the control of funds toward the end of 1865, the Fenian movement had split in two. | | | Click here for a FREE 7 day trial. |
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| | Oisin after the Fenians. |
| | NOW my strength is gone from me, I that was adviser to the Fenians, my whole body is tired to-night, my hands, my feet, and my head; tired, tired, tired. | | | I am the last of the Fenians, great Oisin, son of Finn, listening to the voice of bells; it is long the clouds are over me to-night! | | | "Oisin after the Fenians." translated by Lady Augusta Persse Gregory (1852-1932) |
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| | Also, there are other references to Britain (most notably Caesar’s) and Ireland (most notably in legends) which indicate that dark robes were favored in many rituals and, most notably, curses. | | | It has also been suggested that the "invaders" sought were, in fact, the Formoir, the dreaded giants who were the bane of many waves of settlers. | | | Only when Fionn shows up is the salmon is finally caught, and the druid instructs Fionn not to eat it. |
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| | Fenianism |
| | William Scanlon moved his Irish Republic newspaper first into the Republican party column and then in 1868 to New York to support the presidential candidacy of Ulysses S. Grant. | | | The American Civil War provided the great spur to Fenianism in Chicago, as elsewhere. | | | The Fenian Brotherhood, a secret society formed in New York in 1858 to promote Irish independence, found a home among the roughly 20,000 Irish immigrants living in Chicago on the eve of the Civil War. |
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| | History of IRELAND |
| | But his own inclination is for legitimate politics. | | | At the same time a branch is founded in Ireland by James Stephens, whose Irish Fenians call themselves the Irish Republican Brotherhood. | | | In 1848 he defends the Young Ireland rebels charged with treason for their part in the abortive insurrection of that year. |
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| | Iowa Fenian Movement |
| | Norwalk in 1866 urged release of all Fenians, declaring: | | | Fenianism, had a circulation of 5,000 in Iowa. | | | War, Irish started Fenian movements in many Irish localities. |
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| | History Behind The Irish Fenian Bond : Elusive Spondulix |
| | Together, these Irish born and Irish-American soldiers made up the largest group of forces in the War between the States. | | | While O'Donovan Rossa and James Stephens led the Fenians in Ireland, John O'Mahoney headed up the American contingent, raising funds with the issuance and sale of Fenian bonds which would have been redeemed upon the success of a military rising against occupying English forces in Ireland. | | | In the early years of the American Civil War, military protocol allowed men back on the field after a battle to retrieve the bodies of officers for proper burial, enlisted men were removed for mass burial. |
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| | AllAboutIrish - The Fenians |
| | (At various times they were known as the Fenians, the Fenian Society, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and the Irish-American Brotherhood.) | | | In 1857 several of them, including John O'Mahony and Michael Doheny, came together to establish a group intended to raise money and arms to assist the Irish Republican Brotherhood in their attempts to forcibly oust the British from Ireland. | | | Growth of the organization was disrupted during the American Civil War as Irish-Americans joined forces on both sides of that conflict. |
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| | The Fenians, Band of Rogues |
| | The Fenians were a secret revolutionary society organized in 1858 in Ireland and the United States to achieve Irish independence from England by force. | | | This is perhaps the best version I've heard of "The Green Fields of France," sung as the true requiem that it is -- slow, moving, tender yet passionate, with military drum beats emphasizing the "death march" and powerful harmonies on the chorus. | | | The name comes from the ancient Irish Fenians, a professional military corps that roamed over ancient Ireland in the 3rd century in the service of the high kings. |
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| | Fenian Invasions of Canada |
| | British authorities were well-informed about the actions of the Fenians, but reports of their strength had been greatly exaggerated. | | | When the Fenian barges cleared the Canadian shore, the gunboat escorted them to the United States, where their passengers were placed under arrest. | | | For the Fenians there was no choice but to attack the Canadian force that stood firmly between them and the only path of retreat to the United States and safety. |
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| | BBC - History - The Fenians - up to 1870 |
| | When the American Civil War ended in the summer of 1865 a quarter of a million dollars was raised to finance the long-planned Fenian rising in Ireland. | | | James Stephens, a veteran of Young Ireland, had returned from Paris where he had been perfecting his conspiratorial prowess, to found a revolutionary organisation in Dublin in 1858 dedicated to the establishment of an Irish republic by force of arms. | | | The movement in Ireland, now officially called the Irish Republican Brotherhood but better known as the Fenians, spread rapidly amongst labourers, shopkeepers and others hard hit by the successive harvest failures of the early 1860s. |
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| | History 30: Canadian Studies Curriculum Guide - Unit Two: The Nineteenth Century: The Road to Democracy |
| | Know that one element of that population, the Fenians, also known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood, were an organization created to achieve Irish independence from Britain. | | | Know that many Fenians believed that by invading British North America, they could force Britain to grant Irish independence. | | | Know that several northern states were home to significant Irish populations. |
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| | Fenians @ House of Blues Anaheim :: Sun, March 17 |
| | This is an all ages show, but anyone 16 or under must be accompanied by an adult 18 or over with a valid state ID. For more info. | | | Fenians @ House of Blues Anaheim :: Sun, March 17 |
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