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4 unusual facts about Irish Republican Brotherhood


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Ned Daly, born in 1891 the son of Fenian Edward Daly, he was also the nephew of John Daly who was a leading member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the brother in law of Tom Clarke (Irish Republican).

Irish Republican Brotherhood

In 1882, a breakaway IRB faction calling itself the Irish National Invincibles assassinated the British Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Cavendish and his secretary, in an incident known as the Phoenix Park Murders.

Pat Nally

Nally from an early age had been a Fenian, and by the late 1870s was a leading organiser of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

Patrick (Pat) William Nally (March 1857 – November 1891) was a member of the Supreme Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and well known Connacht athlete from Balla, County Mayo.


Catholic Union

It was overshadowed by a number of other organisations; from the Irish Republican Brotherhood and Isaac Butt's Home Government Association, a precursor of his later Home Rule League, to the Liberal and Conservative parties.

Griffith Barracks

Prominent Irish Nationalist leaders such as William Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher (later Acting Governor of Montana), James Stephens (founder of the IRB) and "Honest" Tom Steele, were among its famous historical prisoners.


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