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FENIANS - LoveToKnow Article on FENIANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | On the 11th of September 1867, Colonel Thomas J. Kelly, deputy central organizer of the Irish Republic, one of the most dangerous of the Fenian conspirators, was arrested in Manchester, whither he had gone from Dublin to attend a council of the English centres, together with a companion, Captain Deasy. |
 | | Condon, Allen, Larkin, Maguire and OBrien, who had taken a prominent part in the rescue, were arrested. |
 | | All five were sentenced to death; but Condon, who was an American citizen, was respited at the request of the United States government, his sentence being commuted to penal servitude for life, and Maguire was granted a pardon. |
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