The Irish-American Fenian Invasion of Canada 1866
Date Submitted: 09/09/2006 22:37:56
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 13 pages (3689 words)
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 13 pages (3689 words)
Fenian Invasion of Canada
"Here's to the Irish
The Men that God made mad
For all their wars are merry
And all their songs are sad."
- G.K. Chesterton
The rise of the Fenian Movement in the United States grew from a long tradition of revolutionary movements to free Ireland from the oppressive rule of the British Imperialists. Irish who immigrated to the United States during the 1840s- 1860s were drawn to the Fenian …
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O'Leary, John. Recollections of Fenianism. (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1969.) p. 101
Neidhardt, W.S. Fenianism in North America. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982.), p. 56
Smith, Paul G. "Fenian Invasions of Canada" Military History (January 2000), p. 11
MacKay, Donald. Flight from Famine: The Coming of the Irish to Canada. (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1992.) p. 320
MacManus, Seamus. The Story of the Irish Race. (Dublin: The Devon-Adair Company, 1974.), p.619
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