2) Fenian. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...One of a legendary group of heroic Irish warriors of the second and third centuries a.d. 2. A member of a secret revolutionary organization in the United States and...

3) Fenian Cycle. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Fenian Cycle, see Gaelic literature....

4) I.R.B. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Irish Republican Brotherhood, meaning the Fenian conspiracy. 1...

5) Clan-na-Gael (The). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...An Irish Fenian organisation founded in Philadelphia in 1870, and known in secret as the "United Brotherhood"; its avowed object being to secure "the complete and...

6) Fe'nians. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...An anti-British association of disaffected Irishmen, called the Fenian Brotherhood, after the ancient Fenians of Ireland; formed in New York, in 1857, to overthrow...

7) 66437. Yeats, William Butler. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:66437 QUOTATION:Saint, do you weep? I hear amid the thunderThe Fenian horses; armour torn asunder;Laughter and cries. The armies clash and shock,And now the...

8) Cen'tre. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...In the Legislative Assembly The Centre were the friends of order. In the Fenian rebellion, 1866, the chief movers were called Head Centres, and their subordinates...

9) 1857, Sept. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...Brotherhood (IRB) in Dublin. The American Irishmen created a counterpart to the IRB in the Fenian Brotherhood (April 1859) and the Clan na Gael (1877), which followed...

10) Bubble (A). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...and of very ephemeral duration-as worthless and frail as a bubble. 1 "The whole scheme [the Fenian raid on British America] was a collapsed bubble."-The Times.The...