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"The rebels will be hanged at dawn, and their brotherhood is already plotting revenge. Stephen Doyle, an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War, arrives in Manchester from New York with a thirst for blood. He has joined the Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland by any means necessary. Head Constable James O'Connor has fled grief and drink in Dublin for a sober start in Manchester, and connections with his fellow Irishmen...
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"The outlandish, untold story of the Irish-American revolutionaries who tried to free Ireland by invading Canada. Just over a year after Robert E. Lee relinquished his sword, a band of Union and Confederate veterans dusted off their guns. But these former foes had no intention of reigniting the Civil War. Instead, they were bound by a common goal: to seize the British province of Canada and to hold it hostage until the independence of Ireland was...
4) Vermont's Irish rebel, Capt. John Lonergan: in the American Civil War & Fenian invasions of Canada
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This book explores the life of Captain John Lonergan, an Irishman born in Ireland and raised in Vermont. Lonergan formed Vermont's only ethnic unit -- his "Irish Company" -- to fight for the Union in the Civil War and was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Gettysburg. This book also describes the circumstances that brought his family to America and his life after the Civil War as a Fenian radical.
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