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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In 1870, Fenians, always short of weapons and ammunition, smuggled cases of revolvers by train to Newcastle upon Tyne. This post tells the story of this daring venture and reveals the involvement of Michael Davitt and John Barry, two of the leading Fenians active in England at the time. In early February 1866, ‘Yankee Irishmen’ […]
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