The Fenians News

 
Fenians back on track as second win lifts spirits
Kilkenny People
Fenians (Johnstown) sealed their second win in the senior hurling league when they triumphed over Dunnamaggin in this exciting third round clash in Tom Ryall Park on Saturday. The victors held their opponents to a single score in the second half, ...


 
May 4th, 1878
Irish Times
FROM THE ARCHIVES: As war threatened between Britain and Russia over their imperial claims to India, the Fenians in America offered 5000 men to help the Russians fight the British. This editorial viewed the offer with a mixture of derision and anger.


 
Fenians banish some of the blues with battling win
Kilkenny People
Fenians (Johnstown) experienced the sort of awful day in the opening round that few in the club could ever have imagined, and while it would be an over statement to suggest they bounced back by fashioning a victory here, the win at least scattered the ...


 
Maher and Mulhall the masters as Martin's destroy
Kilkenny People
An ATTACKING master-class from St Martin's (Muckalee/Ballyle/Coon) saw them blow Fenians (Johnstown) out of the water, 1-16 to 0-3 in the first round of the senior hurling league in Conahy on Sunday. This was the complete performance from St Martin's ...


 
Don't overlook Canada's contributions
Ottawa Citizen
By Sean Henry, The Ottawa Citizen May 7, 2012 Canadians defended themselves twice on home soil: during the War of 1812 and later, immediately before and after Confederation, against the Fenians. He also doesn't note the large Canadian contributions to ...


 
Irish Times
An Irishman's Diary
Irish Times
The £1000 he was given by his newspaper, the Daily News, was given to the Fenians, of which O'Donovan had been a member since a student at Trinity College. He died the following year covering events in Sudan. But back to Baku.


 
Great-great uncle a martyr
Gladstone Observer
William was a "Fenian" - a member of a secret Irish Republican movement in the 19th century. In Autumn 1867, Colonel Thomas Kelly and Captain Deasey arrived in Manchester. They were recognised as Fenians, arrested and remanded to jail.