Irish Republican Brotherhood

Lawless conveys the tension between peasant farmers and upper-class landlords (and the English government) through the lives of her characters, and suggests, as one reviewer describes it, a sad feeling of the hopelessness ....

Most unusually, the name of HL 's father remains unknown. He was a member of the Fenians who nonetheless believed in pursuing political goals through non-violence.HL never knew him, for he died before she...

Fenian Will Upton , whose own publication venture she later encouraged, wrote to praise the novel's freedom from sensationalism. To depict our peasant life truly without prejudice is indeed a national good. . ....

Despite her focus on the ICA, CCM maintained a passionate involvement with many (sometimes conflicting) groups, such as Sinn Féin , the Irish Republican Brotherhood , and the Irish Volunteers .

JFLW was no democrat, but an ardent Irish nationalist (as was her future husband). She was deeply discouraged by the failure of the 1848 uprising. She was supportive of the Young Irelanders and published in...

Greatly moved by the Easter Rising of 1916 and the executions which followed it, DS created a sculpture in memory of the events of the Rising; the sculpture now stands in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin...

She soon began to associate with activists Arthur Griffith , Bulmer Hobson , Eoin MacNeill , and Patrick Pearse , who were then members of such groups as the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB ).

Irish nationalist CGOB wrote poetry (through the later nineteenth century and into the twentieth, including many sonnets and a closet drama), a single novel about a Fenian uprising, and a number of essays, some published...

In the May 1866 Atlantic Monthly, FPC presented to a US audience a tempered attack on the newly prominent Fenian movement.

Introduced in the Athenæum on 24 September 1898 as a story of an unhappy childhood,Autobiography of a Child outlines the unhappy home life of a rebellious Irish girl, Angela, and the brutality and...

CGOB published, dedicated to her father , Light and Shade, her novel about the Fenian uprising of March 1867.

By 2 February 1867 FPC had published a selection of her shorter pieces under the title Hours of Work and Play, including a ghost story, a piece on social reform in India, and...

QV was warned that Fenians were plotting to seize and possibly assassinate her.

A young man with Fenian connections was apprehended for an assassination attempt on QV ; his pistol proved not to be loaded.

While the Queen and her entourage were on a drive, QV 's close personal servant and friend John Brown spotted the pistol in the hand of a bystander and wrestled the potential assassin to the...