Details
Fenians were Dreadful Men
CHF 9.47 |
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Verlag: | Mercier Press |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 01.02.2010 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781781170038 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 256 |
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Beschreibungen
'The Fenians Were Terrible Men' describes: * The foundation of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the background to the Rising * The British response: the arrests of the leaders with special emphasis on those who came from Kerry * The work of Talbot and Corydon, the police spies, the latter also a Kerryman * The Rising in detail in Counties Kerry and Limerick * The Erin's Hope: the Fenian Ship which sailed to Ireland and back to America * The Clerkenwell Explosion, a Fenian rescue attempt which, in an effort to free prisoners, blew out the wall of the local jail and a great deal of the surrounding neighbourhood, killing many innocent people