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James Stephens ( Irish: Séamus Mac Stiofáin; [2] 26 January 1825 – 29 March 1901) was an Irish Republican, and the founding member of an originally unnamed revolutionary organisation in Dublin. This organisation, founded on 17 March 1858, was later to become known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood (I.R.B). [3] Early life [ edit]
Stephens, James (1825–1901), nationalist and co-founder of the Fenian movement, was, according to local tradition and baptismal records, born in July 1825 in Kilkenny city, the adopted son of John Stephens, auctioneer's clerk, and his wife Anne (née Casey).
Stephens’s life story has been told before, and well, by Desmond Ryan in The Fenian chief (his last book, published posthumously in 1967), but the scholarly study of Victorian Ireland and Fenianism has advanced far since then, most notably with the landmark publication of R. V. Comerford’s The Fenians in context (1984).
Sep 8, 2022 · The birth of the Fenian movement : American diary, Brooklyn 1859. by. Stephens, James, 1825-1901. Publication date. 2009. Topics. Stephens, James, 1825-1901 -- Diaries, Irish Republican Brotherhood, Fenians -- Diaries, Irish -- United States -- Diaries. Publisher.
Feb 14, 2024 · Davy Holden, an expert on Irish history based in Co Kilkenny, shares with IrishCentral the story of James Stephens, the founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
The society was founded in the United States by John O’Mahony and in Ireland by James Stephens (1858). Plans for a rising against British rule in Ireland miscarried, but the American Fenians staged abortive raids across the border into British Canada in 1866, 1870, and 1871 and were a cause of friction between the U.S. and British governments.
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Jul 14, 2018 · Whether or not James Stephens, the Head Centre, really planned a revolutionary outbreak that year or simply sought to mollify impatient Irish-American backers with big talk is open to debate,...
