By O. Rafferty
Oliver Rafferty examines the machinations of the Irish progressive Fenian Brotherhood within the early years of its life. Drawing on a variety of fabric from locations as assorted as Rome and Toronto, it seeks to set the Fenian fight in the context of competing church and nation impression in mid-nineteenth century Irish society. it's rather powerful at the transatlantic comparative dimensions of church, country and Fenian task, and demonstrates how the Fenians controlled to alter, ceaselessly, the phrases of Irish political and social debate.
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Those emotions the Church was unable to resist and it became sucked into a political confrontation with the state, which, throughout the decade-and-a-half here considered, it did its best to avoid. At the very least one is left with the impression that Fenianism was a greater force in the social and political realities of Britain, Ireland and North America than is allowed for in much current Irish historiography. It did, after all, occasion one of the most comprehensive and intensive intelligence-gathering operations in nineteenth-century Irish history.
There is some controversy over the exact size of the crowd that turned out on the day and more particularly over the significance of the event. 78 At the same time it also states that 'the line of the route was crowded the whole way by onlookers'. com - licensed to University of St Andrews - PalgraveConnect - 2011-09-24 30 31 Equally one cannot draw too many hard and fast conclusions from these figures, impressive as they are. The mere attendance at the funeral did not signify, despite the invitation of the funeral committee to do so, that the participants 'supported the cause for which [MacManus] suffered'.
M. Sullivan, and Sir John Gray all resigning from the committee. The Times of 28 December said they resigned rather than be puppets moved by the leaders of the Brotherhood of St Patrick, 'a secret organization which may soon require attention'. These very public concerns about the Brotherhood of St Patrick kept Cullen busy writing to Rome and to fellow bishops. 90 It also recommended that Irishmen should fight neither for the Queen nor the Pope. But its most venomous remarks were reserved for an attack on the clergy.