Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Irish Republican Brotherhood
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Characters | Emily Lawless | Lawless conveys the tension between peasant farmers and upper-class landlords (and the English government) through the lives of her characters, and suggests, as one reviewer describes it, a sad feeling of the hopelessness .... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Lynch | |
Literary responses | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | Fenian Will Upton
, whose own publication venture she later encouraged, wrote to praise the novel's freedom from sensationalism. To depict our peasant life truly without prejudice is indeed a national good. . .... |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | She soon began to associate with activists Arthur Griffith
, Bulmer Hobson
, Eoin MacNeill
, and Patrick Pearse
, who were then members of such groups as the Irish Republican Brotherhood
(IRB
). Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988. 66-9 |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | Despite her focus on the ICA, CCM
maintained a passionate involvement with many (sometimes conflicting) groups, such as Sinn Féin
, the Irish Republican Brotherhood
, and the Irish Volunteers
. Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988. 104, 118, 121 |
politics | Dora Sigerson | Greatly moved by the Easter Rising of 1916 and the executions which followed it, DS
created a sculpture in memory of the events of the Rising; the sculpture now stands in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin... |
politics | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | JFLW
was no democrat, but an ardent Irish nationalist (as was her future husband). She was deeply discouraged by the failure of the 1848 uprising. She was supportive of the Young Irelanders
and published in... |
Author summary | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | |
Publishing | Frances Power Cobbe | |
Textual Features | Hannah Lynch | Introduced in the Athenæum on 24 September 1898 as a story of an unhappy childhood, Binckes, Faith, and Kathryn Laing. “Irish Autobiographical Fiction and Hannah Lynch’s Autobiography of a Child”. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, No. 2, pp. 195 -18. 198 |
Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | By 2 February 1867 FPC
had published a selection of her shorter pieces under the title Hours of Work and Play, including a ghost story, a piece on social reform in India, and... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | |
Violence | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | |
Violence | Queen Victoria | QV
was warned that Fenians
were plotting to seize and possibly assassinate her. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964. 359 Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996. xvii Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Hibbert, ChristopherEditor , Penguin, 1985. 200 |
Violence | Queen Victoria | A young man with Fenian
connections was apprehended for an assassination attempt on QV
; his pistol proved not to be loaded. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964. 390 Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Hibbert, ChristopherEditor , Penguin, 1985. 227 |
Timeline
1856
17 March 1858
The Irish Republican Brotherhood
(IRB) was established on St Patrick's Day in Dublin by James Stephens
. It was popularly known for more than a decade as the Fenians. Later this year John O'Mahony
Early March 1867
An unsuccessful Fenian (Irish Republican Brotherhood
) uprising (described by the Cork Examiner as an insane and criminal insurrection) took place in the counties of Cork, Limerick, Tipperary, and Clare.
18 September 1867
Fenians
staged an attack in Manchester on a police van to gain the release of two Fenian prisoners who were arrested the week before; a policeman was killed. Later five men were tried for murder...
January 1881
Followers of the Fenian or Irish Republican Brotherhood
man O'Donovan Rossa
(who himself was in the USA) exploded a bomb in Salford, the first time a bomb had been planted in Britain to further...
May 1882
Thomas Burke
and Lord Frederick Cavendish
, Under-Secretary and incoming Chief Secretary for Ireland, were murdered in Phoenix Park, Dublin, by extremist Fenians
calling themselves the Invincibles.
1890
The year following Irish nationalist Ellen O'Leary
's death from breast cancer on 15 October 1889, her Lays of Country, Home and Friends (many of them political) were collected and published.
25 November 1913
The Irish Volunteers
were established at a meeting at the Rotunda Rink in Dublin, using a name from an earlier period of Irish nationalist ferment—that of the short-lived, late-eighteenth-century Dublin parliament.
December 1915
The Irish Republican Brotherhood
established a Military Council to plan a rebellion in Ireland.
24-29 April 1916
In what became known as the Easter Rising, the Irish Volunteers
and the Irish Citizen Army
took control of Dublin.