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The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB; Irish: Bráithreachas Phoblacht na hÉireann) was a secret oath-bound fraternal organisation dedicated to the establishment of an "independent democratic republic" in Ireland between 1858 and 1924. [1]
Charles Carrigan (1882–1916), a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and served as Chairman of Sinn Féin's first cumann in Scotland before his death during the Easter Rising. Erskine Childers (1870–1922), British author involved in gunrunning and later member of Sinn Féin.
It involved attacks using explosives such as dynamite on British government and civilian targets and was carried out by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, United Irishmen of America and Clan na Gael with the ultimate aim of ending British rule in Ireland.
Seán McGarry, President of the Irish Republican Brotherhood from 1917 until 1919; Liam Mellows; Michael McHugh, father of Maureen O'Carroll [4] Denis Dowling Mulcahy; John Mulholland, President of the Irish Republican Brotherhood from 1910 to 1912; Neal O'Boyle, President of the Irish Republican Brotherhood from 1907 until 191.
The Fenian raids were a series of incursions carried out by the Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish republican organization based in the United States, on military fortifications, customs posts and other targets in Canada (then part of British North America) in 1866, and again from 1870 to 1871.
Agnes married Denis McCullough, president of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Kit married Seán T. O'Kelly, future President of Ireland, who went on to marry Phyllis after Mary Kate's death at 55. [6] Ryan was a "friend and confidant of practically every leader in the Republican movement." [7]
Cavendish was the newly appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland and Burke was the Permanent Under-Secretary, the most senior Irish civil servant. The assassination was carried out by members of a republican organisation known as the Irish National Invincibles , [ 1 ] a more radical breakaway from the Irish Republican Brotherhood .
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.