In 1938, Dr Mark Ryan, who had joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood in Lancashire in 1865, declared in the foreword to his book ‘Fenian Memories’, that ‘next to my religion, Fenianism has been the greatest thing in my life’. Not all Irish nationalists, however, who had enthusiastically embraced Fenianism as young men remained loyal to […]
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This post explores the background to a heated night in Newcastle upon Tyne in February 1884, when Michael Davitt, former Fenian gun-runner and ex-Dartmoor prisoner, came face to face with Tyneside Fenians opposed to the Irish Land League, the very cause that had defined his nationalism since 1879. The Amnesty Association was formed in Dublin […]
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