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The Irish Republican Brotherhood: From Fenian Rising to Easter 1916
Before the Easter Rising, before the IRA, there was the Irish Republican Brotherhood — a secret revolutionary society founded in 1858 with the single goal of winning Irish independence by force. In this episode, Lucas and Luna trace the IRB's shadowy origins in Dublin and New York, its role in the failed Fenian Rising of 1867, the daring Catalpa rescue of Fenian prisoners from Australia, and the bombing campaign in Victorian England. They explore how the Brotherhood kept the flame of rebellion alive through decades of defeat, how it infiltrated the Irish Volunteers, and how its inner…
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