11) Davitt, Michael. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Michael, (dav´it) (KEY) , 1846-1906, Irish revolutionary and land reformer. He joined the Fenian movement in 1865 and was imprisoned three times by the English for...
12) Collins, Michael. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...leader. He spent the years from 1907 to 1916 in England, during which period he joined the Fenian movement. He took part in the Easter Rebellion in Dublin in 1916...
13) Finn mac Cumhail. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...His exploits are recorded in long narrative poems by Ossian and in many ballads, called Fenian ballads after the Fenians, or Fianna, professional fighters whom Finn...
14) 710. Opponent. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International
Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
...willful men. MALCONTENT; demagogue, reactionist; anarchist, anarch; Jacobin, Fenian, Sinn Feiner; Red; Industrial Workers of the World, I. W. W. RIVAL, competitor,...
15) 64564. Wilde, Oscar. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...on the murder in Dublin of the new Irish chief secretary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, by Fenian nationalists, May 1882. Quoted in Richard Ellman, Oscar Wilde, ch. 7...
16) Phoenix Park murders. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...They were stabbed to death by members of the "Invincibles," a terrorist splinter group of the Fenian movement. Two of those arrested turned state's evidence, five...
17) O'Mahony, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...to France and from there to the United States, where he was a founder and organizer of the Fenian movement....
18) Gaelic literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...to type. In modern times they have been divided into two major cycles, the Ulster and the Fenian. 3The Ulster cycle deals with swaggering pagan heroes of the century...
19) Caucus. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...the caulkers house or calk-house, to concert measures for redress of grievances. 1 "The whole Fenian affair is merely a caucus in disguise."-The Times."This day the...
20) Ossian. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...the Scottish Highlands, with Ossian as the bard who sang of the exploits of Finn and his Fenian cohorts. A later cycle of Ossianic poetry centered on Cuchulain, another...
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