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William Mackey Lomasney (1841 – 13 December 1884) was a member of the Fenian Brotherhood and the Clan na Gael who, during the Fenian dynamite campaign organized by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, was killed in a failed attempt to dynamite London Bridge.
The Fenians are a Celtic rock band from Orange County, California. They take their name from a pair of organizations known as the Fenians dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish Republic in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as the Fianna of Irish mythology .
The Fenian dynamite campaign (also known as the Fenian bombing campaign) was a campaign of political violence orchestrated by Irish republican paramilitary groups in Great Britain from 1881 to 1885.
The single was released on both 7" and vinyl record formats by the RAK music label. The B-side was "Do It All Over Again". [6] In Australia, the single was released by RAK as "Dynamite", without the hyphen in the title. The song is featured in the soundtrack of the 2013 film Rush. [7]
The Maccabeats released their first album, Voices from the Heights, in March 2010. This album, funded by a grant from the university, [6] sold about 5,000 copies. [2] In November 2010, they released "Candlelight", a Hanukkah-themed cover of Taio Cruz's "Dynamite" with a music video directed by Uri Westrich, a Yeshiva University graduate. [7]
Clan na Gael (CnG) (Irish: Clann na nGael, pronounced [ˈklˠaːn̪ˠ n̪ˠə ˈŋeːlˠ]; "family of the Gaels") is an Irish republican organization, founded in the United States in the late 19th and 20th centuries, successor to the Fenian Brotherhood and a sister organization to the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
The song, produced and arranged by Camillo, [3] was inspired by the catchphrase of the character J.J. on the television series Good Times. [4] This instrumental features the sounds of whistling and exploding sounds of dynamite. The repeated sung catchphrase of "Dynomite" is the song's only lyric.
On Saturday 13 December 1884 two American-Irish Republicans carried out a dynamite attack on London Bridge as part of the Fenian dynamite campaign. The bomb went off prematurely while the men were in a boat attaching it to a bridge pier at 5.45 pm during the evening rush hour. [ 1 ]