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	Fenian Rising (1867) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fenian Rising of 1867 was a rebellion against British rule in Ireland, organized by the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
		However the Fenian Rising of 1867 proved to be a doomed rebellion, poorly organised and with minimal public support.
		An attack was to be made on Chester, the arms stored in the castle were to be seized, the telegraph wires cut, the rolling stock on the railway to be appropriated for transport to Holyhead, where shipping was to be seized and a descent made on Dublin before the authorities should have time to interfere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fenian_Rising_(1867) (553 words)

	Fenian movement - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Fenian movement
		The Fenian movement was initiated by James O'Mahony, Michael Doheny (1805–1863), and James Stephens.
		Fenian ideology revolved around the notion of England as an evil power, a mystic commitment to Ireland, and a belief that an independent Irish republic was morally superior to Britain.
		Fenianism was opposed by the Catholic Church, but in 1867 the deaths of the Manchester Martyrs, which aroused great popular sympathy, resulted in partial reconciliation as the Catholic Church began to graft to the nationalist movement.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Fenian%20movement (379 words)

	Fenian Brotherhood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fenian Brotherhood was an Irish nationalist organisation based in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century.
		The Fenians were soon found in Australia, South America, Canada, and above all in the United States, as well as in the large cities of Great Britain such as London, Manchester, and Glasgow.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fenian_Brotherhood (1433 words)

	Fenian Brotherhood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, the Fenians never gained much hold on the tenant-farmers or agricultural labourers in Ireland; the movement was also denounced by the Catholic Church.
		Fenian units involved in the Buffalo crossing were the 7th Buffalo (NY), 18th Ohio, 13th Tennessee, and 17th Kentucky Fenian Regiments, and an independent Company from Indiana.
		There are a few references to the Fenian troops who crossed the Niagara River near Buffalo calling themselves the "Irish Republican Army" including a painting of the battle in the National Archives of Canada showing a green flag with the letters IRA over a gold harp.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/fenian_brotherhood (2364 words)

	Fenian Rising (1867) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fenian Rising of 1867 was a rebellion against (The people of Great Britain) British rule in (An island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) Ireland, organized by the (Click link for more info and facts about Irish Republican Brotherhood) Irish Republican Brotherhood.
		However the (Click link for more info and facts about Fenian) Fenian Rising of 1867 proved to be a doomed rebellion, poorly organised and with minimal public support.
		In concert with the Irish rebellion, a bold move on the part of the Fenian circles in (A historical area of northwestern England on the Irish Sea; noted for textiles) Lancashire had been concerted in co-operation with the movement in Ireland.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fe/Fenian_Rising_(1867).htm (407 words)

	4Reference \|\| Fenian Brotherhood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Habeas Corpus Act was suspended in the beginning of Cork in the expectation of commanding an army against England, were locked up in gaol; some petty disturbances in Limerick and County Kerry were easily suppressed by the police.
		However, the Fenians withdrew in disarray as overwhelming numbers of Canadian forces converged on the area.
		The executed Irishmen are remembered among nationalists in Ireland and America as the "Manchester martyrs." In the same month, November 1867, Richard Burke, who had been employed by the Fenians to purchase arms in Birmingham, was arrested and lodged in Clerkenwell prison in London.
	www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/Fenian_Brotherhood.html (1566 words)

	Fenian History
		Fenians have been around since the third century A.D. The Fenian Brotherhood took its name from the legendary Fionn Mac Cumhaill, or Finn Mac Cool and his band of warriors, the Fianna.
		The Fenian Brotherhood was an organization started in the United States by John O?Mahony in 1858.
		Despite their lack of success on the battlefield, the Fenians true achievement was to pass on the ideal of Irish independence to the next generation.
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	Fenian Brotherhood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However the Fenians never gained much on the tenant-farmers or agricultural labourers in the movement was also denounced by the Catholic Church.
		Fenian units involved in the Buffalo were the 7th Buffalo (NY) 18th Ohio Tennessee and 17th Kentucky Fenian Regiments and an independent Company from Under the command of Colonel John O'Neill General and President of the Fenian Brotherhood Irish fought a battle near Ridgeway Canada (now Ontario) on 2 June 1866.
		In 1881 the submarine Fenian Ram designed by John Philip Holland for use by the Brotherhood against British was launched by the Delamater Iron in New York.
	www.freeglossary.com /Fenian_Brotherhood (2406 words)

	Fenian raids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fenian units involved in the Buffalo crossing were the 7th Buffalo (NY), 18th Ohio, 13th Tennessee, and17th Kentucky Fenian Regiments, and an independent Company from Indiana.
		The Fenians under O'Neill's command crossed the Canadian frontier near Franklin, Vermont, but were dispersed by a single volley from Canadianvolunteers; while O'Neill himself was promptly arrested by the United States authorities acting under the orders of President Ulysses S. Grant.
		In 1879, John Devoy, a member of the Fenian Brotherhood, promoted a"new departure" in America, by which the "physical force party" allied itself with the "constitutional movement" under thepolitical leadership of Charles Stewart Parnell, MP;and the political conspiracy of the Fenians was combined with the agrarian revolution inaugurated by the Land League.
	www.therfcc.org /fenian-raids-375680.html (2259 words)

	Ireland's OWN: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The date for the looming Rising was fixed for Februrary 11th, 1867, but as this date approached leadership decided to push it further to March 5th.
		The Fenian's bid for Irish freedom reincarnated the ideals of Wolfe Tone and Emmet and set armed rising as the normal means for its striving.
		The ideals of the Fenians were straight from the thoughts of Tone and Mitchel, as well as those of Thomas Russell and Thomas Davis.
	irelandsown.net /1867.html (3960 words)

	The Fenian Rising in Kilbaha 1867
		(3) The men were Fenians and they had come to play their part in the planned national rising, the object of which was to rid the country of the invader and establish an Irish Republic.
		The Fenians were now fugitives and all the forces of the Crown stationed locally were mustered to secure their arrest.
		He died of a heart attack, brought on no doubt by the rigours of his imprisonment, before the arrival of the rescue-ship “Catalpa” and is buried in an unmarked grave far from his native Corca Baiscinn.
	aoh61.com /history/kilbaha_1867.htm (1827 words)

	Irish Republican Army FBI Files
		This was followed by the First Fenian Rising in 1848, which occurred subsequent to the massive emigration and starvation of the potato famine years.
		The final rising of the nineteenth century was the Fenian Rising of 1867.
		The plotters planned on a nationwide rising, and to cover the assembly of the Volunteers and the Citizen Army, a long holiday weekend of training activities was scheduled.
	www.paperlessarchives.com /ira.html (1630 words)

	Limerick Leader - January 22nd, 2000 - Features - An Mangaire Sugach, by Mainsin Seoige (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is a biography of Ricard O'Sullivan Burke, a County Cork Fenian, and is co-authored by Seamus O'Donoghue and Mary Lynch, the latter a great grand niece of O'Sullivan Burke.
		One thing is certain, and that is that no other Fenian leader had such an extraordinary adventurous and colourful early career as had this Corkman, who was born on a 66 acre farm near Ballineen in West Cork in 1838, the son of Denis and Margaret Burke (nee O'Sullivan).
		When the Rising did take place, it was on the night of March 5/6, 1867, and it was on a very limited scale, the most serious engagement being the attack on the Kilmallock police barracks.
	www.limerick-leader.ie /issues/20000122/seoighe.html (1276 words)

	The Fenian Raids
		The promised rising of the Irish in Montreal did not happen due to the strength of the regular British forces present who were joined by 10,000 militia men and 3 warships in the harbour with their guns aimed at the Fenians.
		All battles ceased and 5,166 Fenian troops were paroled in Buffalo by the 15th of June 1866.
		The Fenians had been used as a pawn by the American government and had terribly underestimated the strength of the British (Canadian) forces.
	www.doyle.com.au /fenian_raids.htm (1812 words)

	1916 Manchester Martyrs Label
		The three men were convicted for the murder of an unarmed police sergeant, while attempting to free two Fenian leaders being transported from a Manchester courthouse to the county jail.
		Public outrage at the executions, as well as agitation for an amnesty for Fenian prisoners, succeeded in mobilizing nationalist opinion to an extent that the rising itself failed to achieve, and provided a basis for the launching of the home rule movement.
		The labels were probably printed immediately after the rising, on the occasion of a flag day held in Dublin to raise funds for the families and dependants of those who had been arrested.
	www.rarebooks.nd.edu /digital/stamps/irish/set8L/set8L.html (426 words)

	"Against the Red Flag" : Socialism and Irish Nationalism 1830 - 1913 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Fenians were roundly condemned for their 'terrorist' actions and the workers in 1913 for promoting 'anarchy'', neither of which could be controlled and channelled by middle class nationalists.
		The Fenians were strongly denounced by all organs of respectable opinion in Ireland and the scare stories spread by the church in particular probably gave the IRB the name of being more radical than it actually was.
		The Fenian Rising of 1867 was a failure but the influence of the IRB remained and they were an important force in Irish communities abroad, particularly in the US and in Britain.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/cc1913/flag.html (7706 words)

	Fenian Rising in Limerick
		The evening of Shrove Tuesday, 5 March 1867, was the planned time for the Fenian Rising in Ireland.
		A carpenter by trade, it was he who fixed the wooden handles to the iron pike-heads - likely made by one of the Quinlivan's who were flsmiths by trade - and distributed them to the men according as they arrived.
		Robert (Bob) Ambrose (the erstwhile Fenian of 1867, who had escaped to France, became a priest and returned to Ardagh in the 1880's to be a curate in the parish, and P.P. of Glenroe in 1904 where he died in 1926.
	www.magner.org /research/fenian.htm (732 words)

	THE FENIANS 1867
		A Rising was planned for 1865, but plans were foiled by the British authorities when Stephens was captured, by the suppression of its newspaper and by the arrests of other prominent Fenians.
		On the night of the 5 March 1867, the railway line at Longford Bridge was destroyed and several bands of Fenians raided the houses of the gentry (such as Massey of Grantstown) for arms.
		Another consequence of the Fenian Rising was the decision to build a large Military Barracks in Tipperary Town in 1874.
	homepage.eircom.net /~tipperaryfame/rebel867.htm (743 words)

	James Connolly: Days of March (1916)
		March 6th is the anniversary of the Fenian Rising of 1867.
		The Fenian Rising in March, 1867, was almost foredoomed to failure because like the United Irishmen in ’98, and the Young Irelanders in 1848, the leaders had allowed the golden opportunity to slip away, and their attempt when it came was belated.
		The leaders of the Fenian movement had preached and practised caution, and counselled delay until their plans were thoroughly matured, but the Government struck before that time, and all the sacrifice and suffering bore no immediate fruit.
	www.marxists.org /archive/connolly/1916/03/daysomar.htm (960 words)

	Ireland's OWN History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As a result the treatment of Fenian prisoners, in particular O'Donovan Rossa, was raised in the House of Commons and the Prime Minister, Gladstone had to hold an enquiry into the treatment of Fenian prisoners.
		The British government released the Fenians on condition that they exile themselves to the country of their choice and not return until their sentences had expired.
		When the bulk of the Fenian movement, under the stewardship of John Devoy, went under the 'New Departure' banner and supported the under the land rights struggle by Parnell and Davitt, Rossa would not comprise and disavowed himself.
	irelandsown.net /rossa.html (768 words)

	W3Perl - Histoire - Irlande - The Fenian Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fenianism was strongly supported by Irish emigrants in America.
		Kelly had made his headquarters in England, where Fenianism had strong support among Irish emigrants, and had earlier failed in an attack on Chester Castle to capture arms and ammunition.
		Almost fifty years would pass before the next rising in Ireland, and during this period the main thrust of Irish nationalism was provided by a parliamentary campaign for home rule.
	www.w3perl.com /www/histoire/irlande/fenian.html (634 words)

	BBC - History - The Fenians - up to 1870 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Revolutionary nationalism had reappeared during the Famine in the form of Young Ireland, but their insurrection in 1848 was so insignificant that the main engagement was known as 'The Battle of Widow McCormick's Cabbage Patch'.
		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.
		On the night of 4 March 1867 several thousand Fenians turned out, but they were dispersed by volleys fired by the Irish Constabulary - renamed in gratitude by Queen Victoria as the Royal Irish Constabulary.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/ni/fenians.shtml (277 words)

	Fenian Brotherhood - InformationBlast
		Under the command of Colonel John O’Neill, later General and President of the Fenian Brotherhood, the Irish fought a battle near Ridgeway, Canada West (now Ontario) on June 2nd 1866.
		President of the United States Johnson's proclamation requiring enforcment of the laws of neutrality was not issued untill five days after the beginning of the invasion.
		In 1879, John Devoy, a member of the Fenian Brotherhood, promoted a"new departure" in America, by which the "physical force party" allied itself with the "constitutional movement" under the political leadership of Charles Stewart Parnell, MP; and the political conspiracy of the Fenians was combined with the agrarian revolution inaugurated by the Land League.
	www.informationblast.com /Fenian_Brotherhood.html (2315 words)

	Casebook: Jack the Ripper - The Lighter Side of My Official Life - Chapter 11
		But, as the Fenian leader John Devoy imprudently disclosed in The Irish Nation, " the number of conferences and caucuses held in the intervals between the sessions of the Convention was almost without number, and it was here the real work was done," the real work being to further the dynamite campaign.
		My mentioning that the Fenian dynamiters were aliens reminds me of the marked and happy change which has taken place in our relations with the Government and people of the United States.
		And no one now living has a better knowledge of the facts; for when the prisoners of the " rising " in Co. Dublin-they were numbered by hundreds -were committed for trial, the Attorney-General entrusted to me the task of looking into all their cases, and advising him as to their relative degrees of guilt.
	www.casebook.org /ripper_media/rps.lighterside.12.html (3684 words)

	Casebook: Jack the Ripper - The Lighter Side of My Official Life - Chapter 2
		A prominent Irish-American Fenian, Ricard Burke by name, who had been for some time `arms agent" to the conspirators, fell into the hands of the police in November, 1867, and was committed to the House of Detention at Clerkenwell.
		In the beginning of 1867 Fenianism was a power to be reckoned with, both in the United Kingdom and in America ; but the events of the year had utterly discredited the movement and demoralised the conspirators.
		All the private secretaries carried arms, he told me. And the Fenians were credited with the intention, not only of murdering public officials, but of burning public buildings and private houses.
	www.casebook.org /ripper_media/rps.lighterside.03.html?printer=true (2580 words)

	1867. Fenian Rising in Cork. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As early as nine o'clock last evening the coastguard station was attacked by a body of armed men numbering about sixty, led by a horseman.
		The coastguards surrendered in the face of overwhelming numbers, and they were, with the exception of one sick man taken prisoner and marched off, the Fenians carrying with them all the arms and ammunition in the station.
		They then marched towards Mogeely, on the Youghal railway, a distance of fourteen miles, and there set their prisoners at liberty, proceeding themselves in a north-easterly direction.
	www.coastguardsofyesteryear.org /letters/ltr20.htm (144 words)

	Fenian Brotherhood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Meantime in Ireland, after the suppression of the Irish People, disaffection had continued to smoulder, and during the latter part of 1866 Stephens endeavoured to raise funds in America for a fresh rising planned for the following year.
		The Fenian Rising (1867)[?], a bold move on the part of the Fenian circles in Lancashire had been concerted in co-operation with the movement in Ireland.
		It uses material from the wikipedia article Fenian Brotherhood.
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	Recollections of Troubled Times in Irish Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pat Egan.-The Fenian Rising in West Kerry,- Bishop Moriarty's famous sermon.-He denounces the Fenian Organisers-But Praises the Honourable Conduct of the Insurrectionists.
		The Fenian Rising in Dublin,-William O'Brien onFenianism.- The Cruise of the " Erin's Hope."-More Denunciations of " Agitation."-Constitutional Meetings Attacked.-The Grattari Statue.-Riot in the Rotunda.-Fenian Rejoicing.
		Fenian patriot and martyr, who had died in Millbank prison-that A. Sullivan had made in The Nation a contemptuous and offensive reference to him, which he professed to quote.
	www.quinnipiac.edu /other/abl/etext/irish/trouble/Irishpolitics.html (17933 words)

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