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Irish Republican Brotherhood : America and Canada

26/11/2020

Irish Republican Brotherhood : American and Canada The word Fenian is derived from the old Irish ‘féne’ the name of an ancient Irish people. Fenians were members of the most important nineteenth century covert revolutionary nationalist organisation the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). It derived some of its inspiration from the United Irishmen of the 1790s. It was founded in 1858, in part to perpetrate the militant ideals of the Young Ireland movement and its failed Rising in 1848. The…

Highwaymen in Ireland and Beyond : Myth, Folklore and Legend

26/11/2020

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Highwaymen in Ireland and Beyond : Myth, Folklore and Legend A wealth of historical and other literature abounds about the life and daring exploits of highwaymen through the earlier centuries who are immortalised as gentlemen, brigands, robbers. They rode on horseback across hills and valleys, or hid in thick heath and woodland, with the protection of sympathisers rich or poor. Most would eventually be captured and die a brutal death by bayonet, pistol or execution, many of whom are…