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Fenians

Another name for the Fianna, legendary Irish warriors.



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50) Cullen also wished to take control over the nationalist movement away from the nascent physical force Fenians and the more moderate secular nationalist movement, which included some influential Irish Protestants among the Catholic majority.
Groups such as The Fenians, the Young Dubliners and the Whooligans played a variety of music.
Yeats recalls that shortly after his first exposure to poetry he was told of "a rumor of a Fenian rising, that rifles had been served out to the Orangemen; and presently, when I began to dream of my future life, I thought I wou ld like to die fighting the Fenians.
 
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