| When London needed yeomanry, police, militia or regiments to suppress the United Irishmen, the Fenians or the IRA, Orangemen were there. |
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| The Fenians were members of the so-called Fenian movement in Ireland and elsewhere, though primarily America and England. |
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| The American Fenians then organized an abortive attack upon Canada, a rather devious way of liberating Ireland. |
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| The Fenians always faced the possibility of being infiltrated by British spies. |
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| In Ireland, Fenians committed acts of violence to bring attention to their grievances. |
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| Within this bustling, energetic, heterogeneous Montreal Irish culture the Fenians were a minority group. |
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| They were also consistent in their defence of the Irish Fenians in their struggle against British rule. |
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| The problem now is that in these peace processing days it's not the Fenians down the road that are getting it in the neck but the Prods up the street. |
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| The most famous were the Fenians and the Irish Republican Brotherhood. |
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| In the mid-century, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Fenians began a genuinely separatist movement, whose support in Irish elections was rarely measured. |
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