(n.) A member of a secret organization, consisting mainly of Irishment, having for its aim the overthrow of English rule in ireland.
(a.) Pertaining to Fenians or to Fenianism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Any comparison with Ireland rouses alarm in Scotland, so here come the disclaimers: Scotland was never a colony settled by foreign conquerors; England did not control Scotland by fire and slaughter; Scotland has no Fenian tradition of conspiracy in the cause of independence; and, best of all, Scotland has no political Ulster.
(2) "My great-grandmother was a Fenian in Dublin," he says, "and Grandfather Boyle moved to 135th Street in Harlem."
(3) One particularly triumphalist message doing the rounds across Belfast and beyond has a festive feel to it: "Sleigh bells ring, are you listening, the union flag has gone missing, the Huns smashed up the town as the crown rag came down, walking in a Fenian wonderland."
(4) In order to pursue his goal of home rule, Parnell had at first cultivated the support of the Fenians, seeking outright independence.
(5) I might have been, as a lot of home rulers had originally been, a Fenian, but by the 1870s, if one had been a Fenian, one would think them absolutely out of court, not relevant."