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practicing terrorism. Scholars dispute whether the roots of terrorism date back to the 1st century and the Sicarii Zealots to the 11th century and the Al-Hashshashin to the 19th century and the Fenian Brotherhood and Narodnaya Volya or to other eras. The Sicarii and the Hashshashin are described below while the Fenian Brotherhood and Narodnaya Volya are discussed in the 19th Century sub-section. Other control of Terror historical events sometimes associated with terrorism contain the Gunpowder Plot an attempt

This historical study will dispel the romanticism of Irish amalgamation into urban Toronto culture that occurred during the Great Famine immigrations of the mid-19th century. In this manner, Toronto has been defined as the “Belfast of Canada” during the 19th century, since the massive populations of British Protestants often objected to the arrival of many Roman Catholic Irish coming during the Great Famine. Traditionally, Irish immigration into Toronto has often been a staple part of romantic images

In considering the process of change in the relationship between Ireland and Great Britain between 1801 and 1921, how far can the 1886 Home Rule Bill be seen as a key turning point? In 1815 Ireland was part of the union though by 1921 it was partitioned. The years in between saw group and individual efforts in trying to change the relationship between Ireland and Great Britain. Parnell’s campaign for Home Rule is seen as a key turning point that potentially was the most important kick starting

Canadian confederation was a process in which the British colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were united into one government of Canada, on July 1 1867. However Canadian confederation did not just happen like that there were causes that lead to confederation. The causes which lead to confederation are; political deadlock, American civil war, the railway, cancellation of reciprocity treaty, and Britain creating her colonies self-sufficient. So today in this essay I will be discussing

This group was a revolutionary society produced by the Fenian movement in Ireland, a movement concerned with Irish sovereignty from England, that had a massive effect on the Irish fight for independence during the Victorian Era. Of course, the English didn’t like the fact that the Irish people were planning

submarine but did not have enough funds to continue his plans until he came to the United States. In New Jersey, there was a group called Fenian Society who was willing to fund his submarine experiments, which he wanted to use against the British navy. He studied the failures of the previous submarines and then perfected and tested his first submarine, known as the Fenian Ram, in 1878. After seeing his success, he knew that in order for his submarine to be perfected he would need the United States approval

and intelligence agencies use to combat or prevent terrorism. Counter-terrorism strategies include attempts to counter financing of terrorism. In response to the escalating terror campaign in Britain carried out by the militant Irish Fenians in the 1880s, the Home Secretary, Sir William Harcourt, established the first counter-terrorism unit ever. The Special Irish Branch was initially formed as a section of the Criminal Investigation Department of the London Metropolitan Police in 1883, to combat

The Irish will never forgive or forget what the British policies did to their forefathers. Of the Irish who did successfully immigrated to the United States they quickly joined an associations that favored Ireland's independence. The famine is what fueled the Irish emigrant anger and most of them viewed it to be the reason for leaving Ireland in the first place. John Mitchel, journalist for the Nation, expressed the emigrants' angry sentiments when he wrote: The Almighty indeed sent the potato blight

County Meath, Ireland. O’Reilly was educated by father (William Boyle O'Reilly) and mother (Eliza Boyle O'Reilly). He was the second of three sons in a family of eight children. In 1865, he became a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, or Fenians, (a group dedicated to ending British rule in Ireland by force of arms) and was arrested and sentenced to 20 years penal servitude. O’Reilly was transported to England where he stayed for two years. He stayed in a number of prisons including Dartmoor

There were then Fenian Raids, when a group of Irish Americans led a series of attacks on the colonies in protest of Britain's rule of Ireland. This scared the maritimes into uniting with the other colonies. On the west Americans were threatening to take British Columbia