Fenian
Irish republican revolutionary
Fenian refers to members of a 19th-century Irish republican organization dedicated to ending British rule in Ireland through armed rebellion.
The movement, active in Ireland and among Irish emigrants in America, staged uprisings and raids.
Today Fenian survives mainly as a sectarian slur in Northern Ireland and Scotland, used by unionists and Protestants against Irish Catholics or nationalists: Fenian scum.
The term remains deeply offensive in those contexts.
Supreme independent authority
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- liberationRelease from constraint
- republicState with elected leaders
- separatismAdvocacy for political breakaway
uprising · insurrection · resistance · revolutionary · sedition · insurgency · struggle · martyrdom
Rigidly devoted to faction
- pejorativeTerm expressing disapproval
- epithetDescriptive tag for someone
- tauntInsulting provocation
- bigotryIntolerance toward differing views
Troubles · graffiti · slogan · derogatory · Protestant · Rangers · Glasgow · Scotland
Patronymic family name
- Home RuleIrish autonomy within Britain
- oath-boundObligated by formal promise
- transatlanticSpanning the ocean between continents
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
sovereignty
Supreme independent authority
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- liberationRelease from constraint
- republicState with elected leaders
separatism · uprising · insurrection · resistance · revolutionary · sedition · insurgency · struggle · martyrdom · physical force
sectarian
Rigidly devoted to faction
- pejorativeTerm expressing disapproval
- epithetDescriptive tag for someone
- tauntInsulting provocation
bigotry · Troubles · graffiti · slogan · derogatory · Protestant · Rangers · Glasgow · Scotland · Northern Ireland
Stephens
Patronymic family name
- Home RuleIrish autonomy within Britain
- oath-boundObligated by formal promise
- transatlanticSpanning the ocean between continents
diaspora · American Civil War · expatriates · amnesty · informer
Gaelic
Celtic linguistic tradition
Erin · harp · shamrock · tricolour · Tara · Ulster · Munster · Leinster · Dublin · Cork
Fenianloyalist
Faithful supporter of authority
unionist · Orangeman · pro-British · royalist · imperialist
- Fenian CycleIrish mythological story collection