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2. Down by the Glenside (The Bold Fenian Men) - Wikipedia

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   Glory O, Glory O, to the bold Fenian men. When I was a young girl, their marching and drilling Awoke in the glenside sounds awesome and thrilling They loved dear old Ireland, to die they were willing Glory O, Glory O, to the bold Fenian men. Some died by the glenside, some died near a stranger And wise men have told us their cause was a failure

3. William R. Roberts - Wikipedia

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   The leader of the Fenian Brotherhood, the scholarly John O'Mahony (who himself served as an officer in the Union Army), thought the Irish veterans should be deployed to Ireland post-haste for a rebellion there, funded by the Irish in America. However, Roberts quickly became the leader of a faction of Fenians with an alternative plan.

4. Fianna - Wikipedia

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   It was made up of landless young men of free birth, often young aristocrats, [3] "who had left fosterage but had not yet inherited the property needed to settle down as full landowning members of the túath". [4] A member of a fían was called a fénnid; the leader of a fían was a rígfénnid (literally "king-fénnid"). [5]

5. Fenian - Wikipedia

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   The word Fenian (/ ˈ f iː n i ə n /) served as an umbrella term for the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and their affiliate in the United States, the Fenian Brotherhood. They were secret political organisations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish Republic .

6. John O'Neill (Fenian) - Wikipedia

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   O'Neill, ranked as colonel, travelled to the Canada–US border with a group from Nashville to participate in the Fenian raids. The assigned commander of the expedition did not appear, so O'Neill took command. On 1 June 1866, he led a group of six hundred men across the Niagara River and occupied Fort Erie.

7. God Save Ireland - Wikipedia

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   Edward O'Meagher Condon's yelling of "God Save Ireland!" during the Manchester Martyrs trial transformed the phrase into an Irish nationalist rallying cry. On 18 September 1867, a group of 20–30 men effected the escape of two Fenian prisoners by ambushing the carriage transporting them to Belle Vue Gaol in Manchester. An attempt to shoot the ...

8. Robert Anderson (Scotland Yard official) - Wikipedia

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   Anderson began to practice as a barrister.However, in 1865, his father showed him papers relating to the trials of Fenians and he too became involved in the operations against them, becoming the foremost expert on the Fenians and operations against them.

9. Ireland unfree shall never be at peace - Wikipedia

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   He spoke "on behalf of a new generation that has been re-baptised in the Fenian faith" and called on the Irish people to stand together for the achievement of the freedom of Ireland. And, he said, "we know only one definition of freedom: it is Tone's definition, it is Mitchel's definition, it is Rossa's definition" (that is, an Irish Republic ...