63 examples of fenian in sentences

The Fenian Army.

if so, who told you? Are you a Fenian, Know-nothin, Mason, Anti-mason, Labor Reformer, Anti-labor Reformer, a Chineese cooler, Anti-Chineese cooler, and the "wickedest man in N.Y."?

Gen. O'NEILL, of the Fenian Army.

Our authority is uncertain whether the prospective groom is one of our border aborigines or an ex-Fenian leader of noted gallantry.

Within, the flag waved no longer, but the rifle stood in the mimosa bush, and round it, with their wounds in front, lay the Fenian private and the silent ranks of the Irishry.

malcontent; Jacobin, Fenian; demagogue, reactionist^. rival, competitor.

" THE FENIAN RISING "It was a man from America it came with.

A policy of concession, of confiscation, of truckling to ecclesiastical arrogance, to popular passions and ignorant prejudices, of lenity to Fenian revolutionists, has at length brought us to this, that the outrages of Galway and Tipperary, no longer restricted to those charming counties, no longer restrained to even Her Majesty's judges, are to reach the interior of this House and the august person of its Speaker.

Vivian Grey at Oxford had belonged to that school which has been described as professing "One Kant with a K, And many a cant with a c." At Lyonness he was supposed to have helped to break the railings of Hyde Park in the riot of 1866, and to be a Head Centre of the Fenian Brotherhood.

Phoenix organizationThe Fenian "scare"Rescue of Fenian prisoners at ManchesterThe Clerkenwell explosionThe Irish Church ActThe Irish Land Act of 1870Failure of Irish Education Act, and retirement of the LiberalsMr.

Phoenix organizationThe Fenian "scare"Rescue of Fenian prisoners at ManchesterThe Clerkenwell explosionThe Irish Church ActThe Irish Land Act of 1870Failure of Irish Education Act, and retirement of the LiberalsMr.

In 1859 several of its members were arrested, and it seemed then to die down and disappear, but some years later it sprang up again with a new name, and the years 1866 and 1867 were signalized by the Fenian rising, or to put it with less dignity, the Fenian scare.

In 1859 several of its members were arrested, and it seemed then to die down and disappear, but some years later it sprang up again with a new name, and the years 1866 and 1867 were signalized by the Fenian rising, or to put it with less dignity, the Fenian scare.

The Fenian plan of operation was a two-headed one.

The Fenian organization, which grew out of the earlier Phoenix one, was managed from centres, a man called Stephens being the person who came most prominently before the world in the capacity of Head centre.

Two other Fenian demonstrations, not to mention an abortive project to seize Chester Castle, were shortly afterwards made in England.

In 1867, some Fenian prisoners were rescued in Manchester, while on their way to gaol, and in the attempt to burst the lock of the van in which they were being conveyed a police officer named Brett, who was in charge of it, was accidentally shot.

Another Fenian exploit of a somewhat different character followed in December, 1867, when an attempt was made by some desperados belonging to the party to blow up the Clerkenwell House of Detention, in which two Fenian prisoners were then confined.

Another Fenian exploit of a somewhat different character followed in December, 1867, when an attempt was made by some desperados belonging to the party to blow up the Clerkenwell House of Detention, in which two Fenian prisoners were then confined.

Hence the inspiration that gave the name of Fenian, in the late nineteenth century, to a band of men who sought to achieve by arms the freedom of Ireland.

The law of the Fenian of the days of Marcus Aurelius was the law of the Fenian in the reign of Victoriato give allmind, body, and strength of purposeto the defense of his country, "to speak truth and harbor no greed in his heart.

The law of the Fenian of the days of Marcus Aurelius was the law of the Fenian in the reign of Victoriato give allmind, body, and strength of purposeto the defense of his country, "to speak truth and harbor no greed in his heart.

An invasion of Canada was made in great force under the general direction of Colonel William R. Roberts, president of the Fenian Brotherhood, but was unsuccessful owing to the attitude of the United States Government, which declared that the Fenians were violating the principles of neutrality.

DAVITT, MICHAEL, a noted Irish patriot, born in co. Mayo, son of a peasant, who, being evicted, settled in Lancashire; joined the Fenian movement, and was sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude; released on ticket-of-leave after seven years; founded the Land League; was for over a year imprisoned again for breaking his ticket-of-leave; published in 1885 "Leaves from a Prison Diary"; entered Parliament in 1895 for co. Mayo; b. 1846.

When, in 1867, one or two Irish rows were dignified with the title of Fenian Riots, and a company of militia were sent down from their more serious Maori work in the North Island to restore order in Hokitika, they encountered nothing more dangerous than a hospitality too lavish even for their powers of absorption.

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