What does FB stand for?

Fenian Brotherhood

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Samples in periodicals archive:

In 1866 a group of mostly Irish Civil War veterans, known as the Fenian Brotherhood, met at what was then a German hotel to launch a bizarre plot: Force Great Britain to relinquish control of Ireland by invading British-controlled Canada.

Pub plot remembered

It was known variously as the Fenian Brotherhood, Fenian Society, IrishRepublican Brotherhood or Irish-American Brotherhood.

Curse of the Fenians

After the war, he threw himself into Irish nationalist circles, becoming involved with the Fenian Brotherhood and spearheading raids into British Canada as a means to achieve Irish independence.

Through American and Irish Wars; the life and times of general Thomas ...

It was revived in 1857-8 in the form of the Fenian Brotherhood.

Catholicism and republicanism in Ireland

To be amember of the Republican Fenian brotherhood was to be against British rule inIreland, and the name 'Fenian' came to be used by Loyalists as a term of abuse.

Ancient origin of the Fenians

The term 'hillside men' was used as slang for members of the Fenian Brotherhood, the 19th-century forerunners of Sinn Fein.

Twisting the Knife; answers to correspondents