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Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites: Race and Nationality in the Era of Reconstruction (2010) Stanford, Jane. That Irishman: The Life and Times of John O'Connor Power, The History Press Ireland, Dublin 2011, ISBN 978-1-84588-698-1; Steward, Patrick, and Bryan McGowan. The Fenians: Irish Rebellion in the North Atlantic World, 1858–1876.
In April 1866, under the command of John O'Mahony, a band of more than 700 members of the Fenian Brotherhood arrived at the Maine shore opposite Campobello Island with the intention of seizing it from the British. British warships from Halifax, Nova Scotia were quickly on the scene and a military force dispersed the Fenians. [16]
About 1000 to 1300 Fenians crossed the Niagara River in the first 14 hours of June 1 under Colonel John O'Neill. [ 9 ] [ 8 ] Sabotaged by Fenians in its crew, the U.S. Navy 's side-wheel gunboat USS Michigan did not begin intercepting Fenian reinforcements until 2:15 p.m.—14 hours after Owen Starr's advance party had crossed the river ahead ...
Fenians of West Tipperary [2] Dwyer and Mcallister Memorial Baltinglass: Co. Wicklow: Michael Dwyer and Sam McAllister [3] Charleville Memorial Charleville Co. Cork: General war memorial [4] National Memorial Cork: Co. Cork: General war memorial; features a statue of Peter O'Neill Crowley [5] James Mountain Memorial Cork: Co. Cork: Young ...
[5] [6] On 5 March 1867, risings took place in Dublin, Cork City and Limerick. The largest of these engagements took place at Tallaght, County Dublin, when several hundred Fenians, on their way to the meeting point at Tallaght Hill, were attacked by the Constabulary near the police barracks, and were driven off after a firefight.
In 1863, Fennell became one of the first Fenians recruited from County Clare; he then helped recruit and organize a group of men in preparation for the Fenian Rising.On 5 March 1867, six Fenians men entered the Kilbaha coastguard station, and demanded the station's arms "in the name of the Irish Republic".
That led to O'Neill's imprisonment in July 1870 – he was sentenced to two years – but he and other Fenians were pardoned by President Ulysses S. Grant that October. Though he renounced the idea of further attacks on Canada, he changed his mind at the urging of an associate of Louis Riel , William Bernard O'Donoghue .
Fenians: fraternal organisations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish Republic in the 19th and early 20th century Fenian raids: a series of skirmishes between the Fenians and British Canada; Fenian Rising: an Irish rebellion against Britain in 1867, organized by a Fenian group; Fenian (horse): a 19th-century American racehorse