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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Fenian"”.
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The 1866 Fenian Raid on Canada West
… colonial perceptions and reactions towards the Fenian Brotherhood in the Confederation era. Its focus is on the impact of the Fenians on the contemporary public mind, beginning in the fall of 1864 and culminating with the Fenian Raid on the Niagara frontier in June 1866. Newspapers, sermons, …
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"Unrepentant Fenian bastards": the social construction of an Irish Republican prison community
This thesis examines the history of republican prisoners in the north of Ireland from 1972-1997, tracing developments in their politics and forms of social organisation during that period. This entailed focusing on those aspects of imprisonment in terms of culture, education, political struggle and …
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Making Fenians: The Transnational Constitutive Rhetoric of Revolutionary Irish Nationalism, 1858-1876
… from 1858-1876. Collectively known as the Fenians, they consisted of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in the United Kingdom and the Fenian Brotherhood in North America. Conceptually grounded in the main schools of Burkean constitutive rhetoric, it examines public and private letters, …
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John O'Mahony: Revolutionary and Scholar (1815-1877)
… and thence to the United States. In 1858 the Fenian movement was founded with O’Mahony as its elected head centre - an office he held for the period during which it was a force in Irish politics in America. O’Mahony tendered his resignation as Fenian head centre some days before his death in …
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Fenianism - A Male Business? A Case Study of Mary Jane 0'Donovan Rossa (1845-1916)
… of the Famine years and her marriage to the fenian leader, Jermiah O'Donovan Rossa, influenced the information of her political attitude and her ardent nationalism. As the eldest of ten children she was to take over responsibility for her family at an early stage of her life. She considered …
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Imperial precedents in the Home Rule Debates, 1867-1914
… generally subsumed within the Liberal party. The Fenian movement, founded in 1865, which advocated total separation from Britain, officially ignored and forbade constitutional methods. The Home Rule movement, essentially inaugurated as the Home Government Association by Isaac Butt in 1870, emerged …
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The Police and the Periodical: Policing and Detection in Victorian Journalism and the Rise of Detective Fiction, c. 1840-1900
… of a corruption scandal in 1877, as well as the Fenian bombings and Whitechapel murders of the 1880s, contributed to significant changes in the detective genre. This was the construction of the image of the ‘bumbling bobby’, and the corresponding rise of the private or amateur detective, which …
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Discovering Border Crossings in Pagan Epic Literature
… stories captured in the <em>Ulster</em> and <em>Fenian Cycles</em>, <em>TheTáin</em>, <em>The Eddas</em>, and <em>The Mabinogion</em>.</p> <p>Border crossings remain important for modern literary scholars to consider because they have not vanished. Although they are perceived differently, the …