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Fenian (formerly) a member of an Irish revolutionary organization founded in the US in the 19th century to fight for an independent Ireland How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 50) Cullen also wished to take control over the nationalist movement away from the nascent physical force Fenians and the more moderate secular nationalist movement, which included some influential Irish Protestants among the Catholic majority. Groups such as The Fenians, the Young Dubliners and the Whooligans played a variety of music. Yeats recalls that shortly after his first exposure to poetry he was told of "a rumor of a Fenian rising, that rifles had been served out to the Orangemen; and presently, when I began to dream of my future life, I thought I wou ld like to die fighting the Fenians. |
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