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From: "Margaret & Randy" <>
Subject: Re: Fenian Activity in Chicago
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 16:01:11 -0500
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Mike
Thank you! This is wonderful information.
Any suggestions where these books would be available from?
Margaret
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Subject: Re: Fenian Activity in Chicago


> Margaret
> The Fenians began to decline after 1875. Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was the
> fiery rebel from the Skibereen Phoenix Club who had spent time in English
> prisons for his Fenian activity, and was, in 1876, in New York. He began
in
> the newspaper "Irish World" to collect money for the "Skirmishing Fund"
> Which opposed by John Devoy (the Fenian who was to become a little later
> president of the Clan Na Gael) not because of Rossa's intentions but the
> chance of the eye of journalism being focused on the Fenians while the
ship
> Catalpa was on its way to rescue John Boyle O'Reilly from Australia. Later
> on as the fund grew Devoy was able to secure control the fund by being
> elected to the board which controlled the fund thereby putting the money
> (he was president of the Clan Na Gael) in charge of a much more secretive
> society founded in the vacuum created by the fading Fenians. The name was
> changed to the more innocuous "National Fund" and was used by Devoy to
fund
> John Philip Holland's development of a submarine called the Fenian Ram.
> Later the presidency of the Clan Na Gael passed on to the Chicago area
when
> in 1882 Alexander Sullivan was elected president and two of his adherents
> became "The Triangle" who ran the Clan Na Gael from 1882 to 1885. Sullivan
> began directly sending men and dynamite into Ireland thus beginning what
> was called the "Dynamite War" with England which lasted until Sullivan was
> ousted from the presidency of the Clan in 1885.
> Based on this history and your date of 1883, I would imagine these men
> mentioned were part of those being sent into England to dynamite Her
> Majesty to her senses.
> Some relevant sources:
> The Dynamite War by K M Short
> Irish Rebel the life of John Devoy by Terry Golway
> Recollections by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa
> Mike
>

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