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  The Irish in Canada: A Strong, 'Loyal' Presence -- The Wild Geese Today
It should be noted, that many of the Irish who came to Canada through the early years, just as was the case in the American colonies, were from the group sometimes known as Scots-Irish, often from Ulster.
When the Fenians threatened the country in the late 1860s, the Irish of Canada did not rush to the banner of Irish nationalism that so inspired their brethren to the south.
Unlike the many Irish massed in the large urban areas of America's Atlantic coast, the Irish of Canada continued to spread themselves around the vast expanse of Canada.
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  Fenian Brotherhood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fenian Brotherhood was an Irish nationalist organization based in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century.
It was a precursor to Clan na Gael, a sister organization to the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
The Irish People, a revolutionary journal started in Dublin by IRB leader James Stephens, was appealing for aid to Irishmen who had received military training and experience in the American Civil War.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fenian_movement   (1146 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Irish (In Countries Other Than Ireland)
Who were the first Irish to land on the American continent and the time of their arrival are perhaps matters of conjecture rather than of historical proof; but that the Irish were there almost at the beginning of the colonial era is a fact support by historical records.
Later, in May, 1879, the Irish Catholic Colonization Association of the United States was established at Chicago, under the auspices of various archbishops, with the co-operation of eminent Irish Catholic laymen, and during the ensuing decade it assisted many immigrants to find homes in the Western states.
While men of the Irish race were engaged on the battlefield in defence of their adopted country, accompanied and encouraged by the clergy, the religious orders of women within the Church were no less diligent in nursing the sick and wounded in camps and hospitals.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08132b.htm   (15677 words)

  
 Fenian Brotherhood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In concert with the Irish rebellion, a bold move on the part of the Fenian circles in Lancashire had been concerted in co-operation with the movement in Ireland.
On September 11, 1867, Colonel Thomas J. Kelly, "Deputy Central Organiser of the Irish Republic," was arrested in Manchester, whither he had gone from Dublin to attend a council of the English centres, together with a companion, Captain Deasy.
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.
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 irish history
All action on the part of the Irish to resist the incursions were soundly defeated by English forces.
The Irish branch of the Fenians became known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
Counting on the support of the Volunteers as well as the Socialist James Connolly's citizen army, IRB leaders planned a rebellion to occur in Dublin on Easter, 1916, which was to spark off a full-scale, country-wide, revolt.
www.jantacc.demon.co.uk /hist.htm   (2938 words)

  
 Fenian Brotherhood -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
About the same time the Irish People, a revolutionary journal, was started in Dublin by Stephens, and for two years advocated armed rebellion and appealed for aid to Irishmen who had had military training in the (Civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865) American Civil War.
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.
Its radicalism influenced later leaders like (additional info and facts about Patrick Pearse) Patrick Pearse and (Irish statesman (born in the United States); as president of the Irish Free State he was responsible for the new constitution of 1937 that created the state of Eire (1882-1975)) Eamon de Valera.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fe/fenian_brotherhood.htm   (2109 words)

  
 Edward Daly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daly was the younger brother of Kathleen Clarke, wife of Tom Clarke, and an active member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
His uncle was John Daly, a promenient Fenian who had taken part in the Irish Rebellion of 1867.
Daly's battalion, stationed in the Four Courts and areas to the west and north of Dublin center, saw the most intense fighting of the rising.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Daly   (157 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
The government of former president MOBUTU Sese Seko was toppled by a rebellion led by Laurent KABILA in May 1997; his regime was subsequently challenged by a Rwanda- and Uganda-backed rebellion in August 1998.
A failed 1916 Easter Monday Rebellion touched off several years of guerrilla warfare that in 1921 resulted in independence from the UK for the 26 southern counties; the six northern counties (Ulster) remained part of Great Britain.
Irish governments have sought the peaceful unification of Ireland and have cooperated with Britain against terrorist groups.
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 IRB.html
This group was the first Irish revolutionary effort to receive substantial support from the Irish in exile in America: money, weapons and Irish veterans of the American Civil War were sent to Ireland in support of the Feinian rebellion of 1867.
The Irish, faced with the imperial might of the British Empire at its height, determined a change in tactics was necessary to achieve their goal because they were faced with a highly centralized world-wide colonial empire they could not match in a conventional war.
The Irish in exile were scattered across the globe--this was advantageous to a decentralized organizational structure that would prove impossible for the British to destroy entirely in any one conflict.
members.cox.net /jprazan/PAPERS/IRB.html   (2187 words)

  
 A Short History of Limerick, Ireland
They settled on Kings Island in Englishtown while the native Irish were moved across the Abbey River to Irishtown.
Eventually, after 5 months, the Irish under their leader, Hugh O'Neil were forced to surrender.
The Irish rose in support but in 1690 they were defeated at the Battle of the Boyne.
www.localhistories.org /limerick.html   (1234 words)

  
 Ireland's OWN: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Irish Holocaust (AKA the Irish Famine) in which between 1845 and 1852 at least a million people died of starvation and a million more emigrated to America, Australia, and Canada.
Those 49 years, however, were an intense political period in which the overwhelming majority of the Irish people continued to express their desire for independence and sought to do so via democratic means; but legislation for Home Rule was defeated in the British parliament in 1886 and again 1893.
The Irish Volunteers became the Army of the Republic, under the Ministry of Defence.
irelandsown.net /IRAhistory.htm   (1619 words)

  
 Ireland - Civil War and Emigration
At first conciliatory towards the Irish, a rebellion in Ulster led by the Irish chieftain of that region, Shane O'Neill, drew "Bloody Mary" to more drastic measures: an act was passed dividing all Ireland into counties.
The emigration of the Irish to almost all parts of the world would in time become the dominating foreign affair of Ireland, with possibly as many as a million all told, leaving the land because of the dire conditions created by the Penal Laws and their aftermath.
Although unsuccessful, the rebellion had been supported by a large number of the Irish people, and public revulsion at the execution of 15 of the rebels caused an upsurge in electoral support for Sinn Fein.
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 Doyle Clan History Part 8
The Gaelic League stressed the importance of the Irish language and culture to the Irish identity.
He proposed that all Irish Members of Parliament should abandon the House of Commons in London and set up a Parliament in Dublin (a similar strategy to that employed by Hungary in gaining its independence from Austria.) Another group, the Fenians, also called the Irish Republican Brotherhood (I.R.B.), believed in independence through violence if necessary.
The leader of the Irish Volunteers was Eoin MacNeill, and the rising had been planned by Pearse and others without his knowledge.
www.doyle.com.au /history_pt8.htm   (2687 words)

  
 88th Bde History
brigade-mate, the 69th N.Y.V.I. was a clone of the famous Irish 69th Militia, and many of the 88th's officers and men had seen service in the old 69th Militia.
Along with the other hard-hit regiments of the Irish Brigade, in June of 1863 the 88th was reorganized as a battalion of two companies, and had only 90 men at Gettysburg.
At the start of the Civil War he raised a company for the 69th New York Militia (A development which greatly discomfited some Irishmen in Charleston, South Carolina, who had raised a company of their countrymen for Confederate service and named it "The Meagher Guards"; it was shortly renamed "The Emerald Light Infantry.").
www.88ny.net /88BDE_History.htm   (1968 words)

  
 Irish Surnames
One reason for the unique nature of Irish society was that the Romans, who transformed the Celtic societies of Britain and other societies on the Continent with their armies, roads, administrative system, and towns, never tried to conquer Ireland.
Indeed, this rebellion triggered the English Civil War, which put an end to King Charles I's attempt to create an absolutist state (represented in Ireland by the policies of his lord deputy, Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of Strafford).
The Irish constituted 42.3% of all immigrants from 1820 through 1850 and 35.2% of all immigrants between 1851 and 1860.
www.hickeyclan.com /irelhistory.htm   (2394 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nicholas French
It is not clear whether it was at this particular period or later that he officiated for a while as coadjutor Bishop of Paris.
During this portion of his life he published many pamphlets on Irish affairs, which are extremely valuable for the elucidation of the history from the outbreak of the war till 1675.
HUTTON (Dublin, 1873); CLARENDON, History of Irish Rebellion of 1641 (Dublin 1719); GILBERT, History of Irish Confederation (Dublin, 1882-1891).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06271b.htm   (364 words)

  
 Annual Irish Cultural Awards
The IACI's annual Irish Cultural Awards were presented in conjunction with the opening of the Irish American Cultural Institute O'Malley Art Gallery at the University of Limerick.
Renowned Irish abstract artist Patrick Scott was born in Kilbrittain, Co. Cork in 1921.
Growing in stature each year, it is the major Irish Crafts industry competition, allowing both professional and amateur craft designers to exhibit and promote their work.
www.iaci-usa.org /03awards.html   (355 words)

  
 IrishAbroad - Irish History
But what is often overlooked is the contribution made by Irish communities in England and Scotland in providing many of the insurgents, arms and explosives and then taking part in the actual fighting.
Padraig Pearse was born in Dublin, on November 10, 1879 to an English father and an Irish mother.
The failed revolutionary Fenian rebellion of 1867 aimed to establish an Irish republic by force.
www.irishabroad.com /yourroots/history   (343 words)

  
 EDUCATION
The Fisk School for Negroes, founded at Nashville by the American Missionary Society in 1866, developed into a normal school and was chartered in 1867 as Fisk University.
When the Tennessee fundamentalist found himself compelled by law to send his children to a tax-supported State school, where doctrines were taught that seemed to him a denial of Scripture, he rebelled.
This rebellion, characteristically blunt and straightforward, led to the adoption of prohibitive legislation.
newdeal.feri.org /guides/tnguide/ch12.htm   (2440 words)

  
 Archive list
The main collections pertain to the rebellions of 1798, 1803, 1848, 1867 and 1916, the Land War of theb1880s, the War of Independence 1919-1921, the Civil War 1922-23 and the Emergency1939-45.
The Rebellion Papers covering the period from 1790 to 1808 are a major source for the 1798 and 1803 Rebellions.
There are court martial reports from the 1798 Rebellion, the records of the Trinity Volunteers, 1797-98, as well as substantial material on the United Irish movement in the Major Henry C. Sirr’s Papers and the Thomas Russell collection.
www.irishsoldiers.com /Research/archive_list.htm   (4535 words)

  
 Frederick Engels in Der Volkstaat 1874   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
And if the contents of many of these measures, e.g., the Irish Church Bill and the Irish Land Bill, were for all their wretchedness an abomination to many old liberal-conservative Whigs, so to the whole of the party was the manner in which these bills were forced upon it.
The former was distinguished for his rudeness and arrogance towards workers’ deputations; the latter ruled London in a wholly Prussian manner, for instance, in the case of the attempt to suppress the right to hold public meetings in the parks.
When the Fenian (Irish-republican) rebellion of 1867 had been quelled and the military leaders of the Fenians had either gradually been caught or driven to emigrate to America, the remnants of the Fenian conspiracy soon lost all importance.
www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1874/02/22.htm   (2009 words)

  
 Irish in Iowa
If you have any Irish roots you know how difficult it is to find your ancestor in Ireland.
This website is a small attempt to help find the birthplace of those Irish who came to Iowa.
If you have anything you would like to contribute to help fellow researchers with their quest for the homeland of their Irish such as obits, bios, cemetery or marriage records, etc. please let me know as they would be most welcome.
www.celticcousins.net /irishiniowa   (120 words)

  
 PROTECT KILMAINHAM JAIL CAMPAIGN
The Irish soldiers of the Second World War are also now remembered here annually each November on the anniversary of the Armistice
The hospital's design is based on Les Invalides in Paris with which it shared the same function; a home for retired soldiers.
The courthouse was built in the early nineteenth century and is adjacent to the jail.
www.kilmainham-gaol.com   (221 words)

  
 Origins of Parliament : Directgov - Guide to government   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In the 17th century, tensions increased between parliament and monarch, such that in 1641 the King and Parliament could not agree on the control of troops for repression of the Irish Rebellion.
Growing pressure for reform of Parliament in the 18th and 19th centuries led to a series of Reform Acts which extended the vote to most men over 21 in 1867 and, finally, to women over 21 in 1928.
The legislative primacy of the House of Commons over the Lords was confirmed in the 20th century by the passing of the Parliament Acts of 1911 and 1949.
www.direct.gov.uk /Gtgl1/GuideToGovernment/Parliament/ParliamentArticles/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4003203&chk=Mixgt7   (440 words)

  
 Edward
Edward Daly Edward Daly (Fenian who had taken part in the Irish rebellion of 1867.
Edward Hincks Edward Hincks (1866), Irish Assyriologist and one of the decipherers of Mesopotamian cuneiform.
He had been called to the Irish bar, but, having fought as a Indian Mutiny,...
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 Library-list
The local studies department has numerous sources relating to various conflicts, including the rebellions of 1798, 1848 and 1867, the 1916-23 period, the two World Wars and Irish United Nations missions.
There are press cuttings, files and journal (especially in Breifne) articles on local involvement in the 1798 rebellion and the subsequent French landings in the west, as well as material on the Spanish Armada and the American Civil War.
There is a collection on Michael Davitt, the Fenian and Land League leader and also a limited amount of material relating to the local IRA during the War of Independence.
www.irishsoldiers.com /Research/library_list.htm   (1505 words)

  
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The Irish members of the International in London decided organise a giant demonstration in Hyde Park (the largest public park in London, where all the big popular meetings take place during political campaigns) to demand a general amnesty.
Of one thing there can be no doubt: the Irish, thanks to their energetic efforts, have saved the right of the people of London to hold meetings in parks when and how they please.
and the Irish Land Bill, were for all their wretchedness an abomination to many old liberal-conservative Whigs, so to the whole of the party was the manner in which these bills were forced upon it.
harikumar.brinkster.net /MARX_ENGELS_TXT/Engels-ArticlesTUAristo.htm   (16697 words)

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