Like the Ulster Cycle, the Fenian Cycle is concerned with the deeds of Irish heroes.

The stories of the Fenian Cycle appear to be set around the 3rd century and mainly in the provinces of Leinster and Munster.

The single most important source for the Fenian Cycle is the Acallam na Senórach ( Colloquy of the Old Men ), which is found in two 15th century manuscripts, the Book of Lismore and Laud 610, as well as a 17th century manuscript from Killiney, County Dublin.

The world of the Fenian Cycle is one in which professional warriors spend their time hunting, fighting, and engaging in adventures in the spirit world.

* In the Fenian Cycle the dwarf harper Cnú Deireóil claimed to be Lugh's son.

" The Wanderings of Oisin " is based on the lyrics of the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology and displays the influence of both Sir Samuel Ferguson and the Pre-Raphaelite poets.

The stories of Fionn and his followers the Fianna, form the Fenian Cycle ( or Fiannaidheacht ), much of it purported to be narrated by Fionn's son, the poet Oisín.

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The hero Fionn mac Cumhaill is supposed to have lived in Cormac's time, and most of the stories of the Fenian Cycle are set during his reign.

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Diarmuid Ua Duibhne ( ) or Diarmid O ' Dyna ( also known as Diarmuid of the love spot ) is a son of Donn and a warrior of the Fianna in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.

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The story appears in Agallamh na Seanórach, which is part of the Fenian Cycle.

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Fianna ( singular fian ) were small, semi-independent warrior bands in Irish mythology and Scottish mythology, most notably in the stories of the Fenian Cycle, where they are led by Fionn mac Cumhaill.

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Goll mac Morna ( or Goal mac Morn ) was a member of the fianna and an uneasy ally of Fionn mac Cumhail in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.

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Cumhall ( earlier Cumall, pronounced roughly " Coo-al " or " Cool ") son of Trénmór (" strong-great ") is a figure in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology, a leader of the fianna and the father of Fionn mac Cumhaill.

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Muirne or Muireann Muncháem (" beautiful neck ") was the mother of Fionn mac Cumhail in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.

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Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).

In addition to battling the armies of other European Empires ( and of its former colonies, the United States, in the American War of 1812 ), in the battle for global supremacy, the British Army fought the Chinese in the First and Second Opium Wars, and the Boxer Rebellion, Māori tribes in the first of the New Zealand Wars, Nawab Shiraj-ud-Daula's forces and British East India Company mutineers in the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the Boers in the First and Second Boer Wars, Irish Fenians in Canada during the Fenian raids and Irish separatists in the Anglo-Irish War.

Opposition took various forms: constitutional ( the Repeal Association ; the Home Rule League ), social ( disestablishment of the Church of Ireland ; the Land League ) and revolutionary ( Rebellion of 1848 ; Fenian Rising ).

Parnell made it his business to cultivate Fenian sentiments both in Britain and Ireland and became associated with the more radical wing of the Home Rule League, which included Joseph Biggar ( MP for Cavan from 1874 ), John O ' Connor Power ( MP for County Mayo from 1874 ) ( both, although constitutionalists, had links with the IRB ), Edmund Dwyer-Gray ( MP for Tipperary from 1877 ), and Frank Hugh O ' Donnell ( MP for Dungarvan from 1877 ).

Colonists in the United Province of Canada, some who experienced their territory being attacked by the United States only 40 years earlier ( in the War of 1812 ), were uncomfortably close to the giant Union Army and faced terrorist attacks during the mid-19th century in the form of Fenian raids.

* James Wilson ( Irish nationalist ) ( 1836 – 1921 ), Fenian involved in the Catalpa rescue of 1876

* John O ' Neill ( Fenian ) ( 1834 – 1878 ), member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood ( Fenians )

While these writers were all more or less academic, and appealed to the cultured few, four poets of the people addressed a far wider public: Verdi ( 1779 – 1820 ), of Bordeaux, who wrote comic and satirical pieces ; Jean Reboul ( 1796 – 1864 ), the baker of Nîmes, who never surpassed his first effort, L ' Ange à l ' enfant ( 1828 ); Victor Gelu ( 1806-188 ~), relentless and brutal, but undeniably powerful of his kind ( Fenian ci Grouman ; dix chansons provençales, 1840 ); and, greatest of them all, the true and acknowledged forerunner of the felibres, Jacques Jasmin, whose poems, both lyrical and narrative, continue to find favour with men of the highest culture and literary attainments, as with the villagers for whom they were primarily intended.

The Fenian movement consisted of the Fenian Brotherhood and the Irish Republican Brotherhood ( IRB ), fraternal organisations founded in the United States and Ireland respectively with the aim of establishing an independent republic in Ireland.

* John Daly ( Fenian ) ( 1845 – 1916 ), Irish revolutionary and leading Member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood

The Fenian units involved in the battle were the 7th Buffalo ( NY ), the 18th Ohio, the 13th Tennessee, and the 17th Kentucky Fenian Regiments, as well as independent companies from Indiana and from New Orleans ( The Fenian Louisiana Tigers.

Oisín ( ; ), also spelt in English Ossian ( ) or Osheen, was regarded in legend as the greatest poet of Ireland, and is a warrior of the fianna in the Ossianic or Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.

According to Cath Gabhra ( The Battle of Gabhra ), a narrative of the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology, Cairbre married Aine, daughter of Fionn mac Cumhaill.

* Michael Scanlon ( poet ) ( 1833 – 1917 ), Irish-born Fenian poet and statistician

The single most important source for the Fenian Cycle is the Acallam na Senórach ( Colloquy of the Old Men ), which is found in two 15th century manuscripts, the Book of Lismore and Laud 610, as well as a 17th century manuscript from Killiney, County Dublin.

In 1865, when many Fenian leaders were arrested, James Stephens, founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood ( IRB ), appointed Devoy Chief Organiser of Fenians in the British Army in Ireland.

The acronym IRA was first used by the IRB organisation in America ( also known as the Fenian Brotherhood ).

Clerkenwell was also the location of three prisons: the Clerkenwell Bridewell, Coldbath Fields Prison ( later Clerkenwell Gaol ) and the New Prison, later the House of Detention, notorious as the scene of an attempted prison break in 1867 by Fenian rebels who sought to blow up part of the building.

* The Fenian raids, based in the United States, also targeted Canada between 1866 and 1871.

Niamh is a popular Irish girl's name, and is also the name of a fairy queen from the Fenian Cycle.

Stephens would also be caught, but with the support of Fenian prison warders, John J. Breslin and Daniel Byrne was less than a fortnight in Richmond Bridewell when he vanished and escaped to France.

* The area is also the centre of John Keegan " Leo " Casey the Fenian Poet whose best known work was the ' Rising of the Moon ' who was born in 1846 and died on St. Patricks Day, 17 March 1870

He also became a national organizer for the IRB, and was taken under the wing of veteran Fenian Tom Clarke.

The Fenian forces were mostly battle-hardened American Civil War veterans, armed with weapons procured from leftover war munitions, also Enfield rifled muskets or the comparable Springfield.

Rosscarbery was also home to one of the leaders of the Irish Fenian movement, Jeremiah O ' Donovan Rossa.

Irish Americans also played an important role in the shaping of 19th-century Irish republicanism through the Fenian movement and the development of view that the Great Hunger was a British atrocity.

The only one fielded was the Grenade, No. 76 or Special Incendiary Phosphorus grenade, which consisted of a glass bottle filled with a mixture similar to Fenian fire, plus some latex ( see also Molotov cocktail, Greek fire ).

Conán mac Morna, also known as Conán Maol (" the bald "), is a member of the fianna and an ally of Fionn mac Cumhail in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.

The theft also included the Fenian Ram, a successful submarine they had commissioned.

A romantic nationalist, Cusack was also " reputed " to have been associated with the Fenian movement.

The Fenian poet, author of the popular song " Rising of the Moon ", John Keegan ' Leo ' Casey was imprisoned here during the 1860s ; subsequently in the 20th century playwright and IRA activist Brendan Behan was also gaoled within.