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Thomas Davis (1814-45), leader of the Young Ireland movement.	Reward of five hundred pounds for the capture of William Smith O’Brien, 1848.	Reward of three hundred pounds for the capture of Thomas F. Meagher, John B. Dillon and Michael Doheny, 1848.
John Mitchel (1815-75).	John O’Mahony (1816-77).	Thomas Clarke Luby (1822-1901).
Terence Bellew McManus, a young Ireland leader.	John O’Leary (1830-1907).	Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa (1831-1915).
Richard O’Sullivan Burke (1838-1922).	John Boyle O’Reilly (1844-90).	Illustration entitled ‘The Irish Fenian executive’, with below, a hundred dollar Fenian bond.
Proclamation offering one thousand pounds for the capture of James Stephens, January 1866.	A skirmish between troops and Fenians, Tipperary, March 1867.	The battle of Tallaght, 5 March 1867.
Courtroom scene, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, 1867.	The Erin’s Hope, 1867.	Gold cup presented to William O’Brien. O’Brien was transported to Tasmania after the failed 1848 rising. This cup was presented to him by the Irish in Melbourne and Geelong upon his release [...]
Illustration of Fenian flags based on descriptions given by contemporaries during the trials of 1865 and 1866.	Flag captured from the Fenians at Tallaght, March 1867.	Fenian bond for five dollars, 1866.
Fenian bond certificate, undated, printed in New York.	Fenian bond for twenty dollars, signed by John O’Mahony, 1866.	Fenian bond or note, undated.
Location certificate & land grant to a Canadian militia veteran who served against the Fenians in 1870.	The escape of the Freemantle prisoners, April, 1876.	Anti-Fenian cartoon, New York, 1881.
Anti-O’Donovan Rossa cartoon, New York, 1882.	Section of a Land League flag from Kilmaley, Co. Clare, depicting Davitt. It was his standing and influence that ensured the support of rank-and-file Fenians, in Ireland and America.	Home Rule cartoon, 1880s.
Political Cartoon entitled ‘Driving him under the surface.’	Nationalist cartoon, 1887. The golden jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign was celebrated in Britain as a time of ‘prosperity and gentle rule’. Here the chained figure of Erin is s [...]	Major John MacBride, 1865-1916, after a charcoal sketch by Seán O’Sullivan. He joined the IRB in the 1880s and was also involved in the formation of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). He fought in the Boer War with the IRi [...]
Thomas Clarke, 1857-1916, after a charcoal sketch by Seán O’Sullivan. Clarke joined Clan na Gael in the United States. He was arrested during the Dynamite campaign in 1883 and was to spend fifteen years in jail. He retur [...]	John Daly after a charcoal sketch by Seán O’Sullivan. He was a friend and fellow-prisoner of Thomas Clarke. He spent twelve years in jail for his part if the dynamite campaign of the 1880s in Britain. He [...]	Manchester Martyrs memorial card, 1867.
General Thomas Francis Meagher and the Irish Brigade at the Battle of Fair Oaks, 1862.	A Commission dated 8 April 1867, appointing William Sweetman as a First Lieutenant in the Provisional Navy of the Fenian Brotherhood.	The battle of Limstone Ridge, Ontario, June 1866.
Fenian prisoners in the exercise yard at Mountjoy prison, Dublin c. 1867.	Tipperary election address, 1869. O’Donovan Rossa, then a prisoner in Chatham jail was elected in a high profile campaign.	The ‘Cuba Five’, amnestied in 1871. From left to right: John Devoy, Charles Underwood O’Connell, Henry Mulleda, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa and John McClure.
Thomas J Desmond, second in command to John J. Breslin and James Reynolds, a member of the Catalpa rescue committee.	John Devoy, organiser of the Catalpa rescue and John J. Breslin, leader of the rescue.	Illustration entitled 'The Race for the Catalpa'.
The six Fenian prisoners rescued from Freemantle, 1876, after arriving in the United States.	The Catalpa rescue as illustrated in a pamphlet by John Devoy, 1882.	Undated eviction scene.
Patrick Egan	Conradh na Gaeilge (Gaelic League) membership card.	Major John MacBride photographed alongside a group of Chicago Irish volunteers during the Boer War.
Colonel Lynch's second Irish brigade photographed during the siege of Ladysmith during the Boer War.	John Daly, Thomas Clarke and Seán MacDiarmada	John Devoy
John Devoy photographed in prison clothes, 1866.	Cartoon published by British satirical magazine, Punch, in 1867 after the Clerkenwell explosion. In December of 1867, an attempt to rescue Richard O'Sullivan Burke and the prisoner Casey resulted in an explosion at Clerkenwell House of Detention, [...]	Fenian attack on a prison van in Manchester, September 1867. In September 1867 Colonel Kelly was arrested in Manchester. Thirty Fenians attacked the unescorted prison van in an attempt to rescue him. Police serg [...]
Lord Frederick Cavendish, Chief Secretary and nephew of Gladstone, 1880. He and Permanent Under Secretary, Thomas Burke were assassinated by nationalists in the Phoneix Park in 1882.	John O'Leary (1830-1907), Republican. W. B. Yeats used O'Leary, in his great poem, 'September 1913' as the symbol of the lost purity of Irish nationalism: 'Romantic Ireland's dead and gone [...]	James Donaghy, Fenian prisoner, 1866.
Hugh McGriskin, Fenian prisoner, 31 May 1865.	Albumen print of James Stephens ca. 1866.	Constitutionalism or Physical Force?

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