Irish Fenian’s Were Originally a Group of Knights Similar to the Knights of Camelot

Published Thursday, 8th November, 2012 | By Susan AKA Peacefull

The Fenian Brotherhood identify with Arthurian Camelot. I found this interesting.

http://www.guildportal.com/Guild.aspx?GuildID=35681&TabID=317410

Truth in our hearts. Strength in our hands. Consistency in our tongues.
We have come together in search of equality, fraternity, and righteousness.
We seek to fill our ranks with those of high moral character, integrity, and honor.
The object of the brotherhood is to form a more perfect union; to establish justice; to insure fraternal harmony in the work of securing the blessing of liberty for Hibernia.

We:

Titans, Dark Tribunal, Morrigu’s Wrath. Phoenixx, Black Wraith Council, Carpa Scorpus and Dark Star Rising share alliance here.

Our Alliance

We are The Fenian Brotherhood. We have chosen to name ourselves after a original celtic alliance that continued in spirit throughout the centuries to become many things. Most recently The Fenian Brotherhood fought against odds to free themselves from the rule of Britain in Ireland. We felt this very appropriate.

Some of us have tried other Alliances, some of us have not. For one reason or another we all felt the need to build something different, to be a part of something that more precisely fit our needs.

We feel that an Alliance should be what it is. A collection of parties who come together for a common purpose, under no single rule but working together collectively and equally. We have chosen to build with the idea of democracy in mind, all of our ideas and opinions working to create a greater whole.

Those of us who are allied here are strong in our moral values and wish to keep company with those of like mind. We hold high Integrity, Loyalty, Honor, Honesty, and we pride ourselves on defending those values at any cost.

All who ally with us have a voice and we ask that they use it. We will at no time discourage open communication for every last one of us constitutes a part of the body that makes us whole.

We are strong and we are pround. We are equal.

We are The Fenian Brotherhood.

http://mmmmmmmm.blogspot.com.au/ (funny address)

What’s a Fenian?

The term Fenian, as I originally understood it, described anyone who opposed a British presence in Ireland. Of course there’s more to it than that. It is a term that originated in the legendary tales of Celtic warriors and was adopted by early Irish-American visionaries. It has evolved into a term that is an easy insult for some, and worn as a badge of honor by others. Fenians have been around since the third century A.D.

The Fenian Brotherhood took its name from the legendary Fionn Mac Cumhaill, or Finn Mac Cool and his band of warriors, the Fianna. The Fianna name was chosen because of their legendary devotion to Ireland:

Originally a group of knights, the Fianna were similar to King Arthur and the Kights of Camelot. They held high ideals of chivalry and national unity. One early story described a temptation to give up Ireland. In return they would gain the world and the country of everlasting youth. The Fenians did not do so, and ended up defeating the temptor.

The Fenian Brotherhood was an organization started in the United States by John O’Mahony in 1858. O’Mahony and James Stephens, both members of the Young Ireland Rising of 1848, worked together to gain support for an uprising in both Ireland and the US. Stephens was instrumental in establishing the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood (later known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood) in Ireland. The object of Stephens, O’Mahony, and other leaders of the movement was to form a league of Irishmen in all parts of the world against British rule in Ireland. The organization was modelled on that of the Jacobins of the French Revolution; they even formed a “Committee of Public Safety” in Paris, with a number of subsidiary committees and affiliated clubs. The Fenians were soon found in Australia, South America, Canada, and above all in the United States, as well as in the large cities of Great Britain such as London, Manchester, and Glasgow.

One of the main goals of the Fenian Brotherhood was to invade Canada in order to ransom it back to Britain in return for Irish freedom. Despite several raids conducted between 1866 and 1871, the Fenians were never successful. There was also a Fenian rising in Ireland in 1867 that was unsuccessful. Despite their lack of success on the battlefield, the Fenians true achievement was to pass on the ideal of Irish independence to the next generation.

Other Fenians of note:

Thomas Francis Meager (1823-1867)
Kevin Izod O’Doherty (1823-1905)
Thomas D’Arcy McGee (1825-1868)
Stephen Joseph Meany (1825-1888)
Timothy Daniel Sullivan (1827-1914)
Charles J.Kickham (1828-1882)
Alexander Martin Sullivan (1830-1884)
John O’Leary (1830-1907)
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa (1831-1915)
Edward O’Meager Condon (1835-1915)
John Devoy (1842-1928)
John Boyle O’Reily (1844-1890)
John Keegan Casey (1846-1870)
John O’Neill (1834-1878) also: Nebraska’s tribute to Gen. John O’Neill
William Randall Roberts (1830-1897)
Michael Barrett, the last person to be publicly hanged in the UK (1840-1868)