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Fenianism
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Fe·ni·an  (fn-n)
n.
1. One of a legendary group of heroic Irish warriors of the second and third centuries a.d.
2. A member of a secret revolutionary organization in the United States and Ireland in the mid-19th century, dedicated to the overthrow of British rule in Ireland.
[From alteration (influenced by féne, body of freemen under early Irish law) of Irish Gaelic fianna, bands of young warriors, from Old Irish fíanna, pl. of fían.]
Feni·an adj.
Feni·an·ism n.
Fenianism
the principles and practices of an Irish revolutionary organization founded in New York in 1858, especially its emphasis on the establishment of an independent Irish republic. — Fenian, n., adj.
See also: Politics
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After the war, he threw himself into Irish nationalist circles, becoming involved with the Fenian Brotherhood and spearheading raids into British Canada as a means to achieve Irish independence.
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Some time after 1885, when he was 20 years old, Yeats himself joined the secret Irish Republican Brotherhood (a descendent of the Fenian Brotherhood of the late 1860s and a predecessor of the IRA).
The Poet As Politician by Moses, Michael Valdez / Reason
Take for instance an anthem written for the Fenian incursions into Canada: We are the Fenian Brotherhood, skilled in the arts of war, And we're going to fight for Ireland, the land that we adore, Many battles we have won, along with the boys in blue, And we'll go and capture Canada for we've nothing else to do.
FAR-FLUNG IRELAND by Van Raven, Pieter / Commonweal
 
 
 
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