![]() ![]() Kelly’s influence, as Commanding Officer, like James Stephens’ before him,was already on the wane before he fled to New York. Thomas Kelly and Captain Timothy Deasy from the Manchester prison van in September could be seen as a successful outcome. Ever plagued by informants, the failed ‘invasion’ of Canada an attempt to ferment a rising in Ireland the aborted raid on Chester Castle ending in the botched explosion and loss of innocent lives at Clerkenwell were some of the events of this momentous year. Born out of the Great Famine, its most rebellious phase saw the presence of hundreds of former Irish- American soldiers on the streets of Dublin, while others visited Liverpool, Manchester and London. 1867 was undoubtedly a peak year for the Fenian movement. This book is specifically about what were called the Temple Bar shootings in Dublin. A detailed Irish history of some events of the ‘Fenian years’ of the 1860s by Barry Kennerk ![]()
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