| Within this bustling, energetic, heterogeneous Montreal Irish culture the Fenians were a minority group. |
| In Ireland, Fenians committed acts of violence to bring attention to their grievances. |
| When London needed yeomanry, police, militia or regiments to suppress the United Irishmen, the Fenians or the IRA, Orangemen were there. |
| The Fenians were members of the so-called Fenian movement in Ireland and elsewhere, though primarily America and England. |
| The American Fenians then organized an abortive attack upon Canada, a rather devious way of liberating Ireland. |
| They were also consistent in their defence of the Irish Fenians in their struggle against British rule. |
