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In 2013, nine health workers administering polio vaccine were targeted and killed by gunmen on motorcycles in Kano, but this was an isolated incident. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] Local traditional and religious leaders and polio survivors worked to support the vaccination campaign, [ 54 ] and Nigeria has not had a polio case since July 24, 2014; in 2016 ...
As a congressman, Roberts criticised the Republican government for its policy towards the former confederate states, opposed the increasing power of railroad barons, advocated for greater protection for American citizens living in foreign countries (with Fenians imprisoned in Canada in mind), supported civil rights for black people and was ...
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.
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The close of the Civil War in the spring of 1865 gave a great impetus to the Fenians, owing to the number of Irish-American soldiers that were disbanded and anxious to see service elsewhere. Money poured into the Fenian exchequer; probably $500,000 was subscribed between 1860 and 1867. [5]
In 1856 O'Mahony went to America and in 1858 founded the Fenian Brotherhood. Stephens returned to Ireland and in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day 1858, following an organising tour through the length and breadth of the country, founded the Irish counterpart of the American Fenians, the Irish Republican Brotherhood. [8] [9] [10]
Shortly after the establishment of the paper, Stephens departed on an American tour, and to attend to organisational matters. [48] American Fenians made plans for a rising in Ireland, but the plans were discovered on 15 July 1865 when an emissary lost them at Kingstown railway station.
More than 12,000 military service members refusing the COVID-19 vaccine are seeking religious exemptions, and so far they are having zero success. Meanwhile, troops claiming religious reasons for ...