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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.
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On political issues, the group supported Radical Reconstruction in the postbellum South, Fenianism in Victorian Ireland, and opposed the temporal power of the pope.
FIGHTING ED MCGLYNN by Andreassi, Anthony D. / Commonweal
Over a period of twenty five or thirty years, a new nationalist synthesis developed in the Irish-American community to a greater degree and along a different trajectory than the nationalist tendencies in pre-Famine Ireland; witness the genesis of Fenianism, one of the first fully developed nationalist movements in Ireland,(16) in the Irish-American community.
St. Patrick's Day celebrations and the formation of Irish-American ... by Moss, Kenneth / Journal of Social History
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