Fenian
Sign in to savethumb|Supplement given with the Weekly Freeman of October 1883
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Irish Catholic
- Religion
- Catholicism
Show 2 more facts
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- ethnic group
- Irish people
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~17 min read
Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Fenianism
- 19th Century
- Ireland
- United States
- Canada
- England
- Australia
- Early 20th Century
- Later usage of the term
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Australia
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Supplement given with the Weekly Freeman of October 1883
The Fenians (, ) were Irish republican revolutionaries that sought to achieve the independence of Ireland from the British Empire in the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. The main Fenian organisations were the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and their affiliate in the United States, the Fenian Brotherhood. In 1867, they attempted a rising in Ireland which was co-ordinated with raids into Canada from the United States. Although the rising failed, the IRB continued in existence and played a central part in the 1916 Easter Rising and the 1919–1921 Irish War of Independence which led to the establishment of the Irish Free State.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fenian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.