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Fenian
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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.
Fenian [feen-yan]
Noun
(formerly) a member of an Irish revolutionary organization founded to fight for an independent Ireland [after Fianna, legendary band of Irish warriors]
Fenianism n
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Yeats recalls that shortly after his first exposure to poetry he was told of "a rumor of a Fenian rising, that rifles had been served out to the Orangemen; and presently, when I began to dream of my future life, I thought I wou ld like to die fighting the Fenians.
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