Fenian Memorial Committee of Chicago

03/11/2023

Stopped through Mount Olivet today. It is such a beautiful grounds. Ricard O’Sullivan Burke. Irish Nationalists of Chicago monument. Martin Hogan.

05/07/2022

ROCKAWAY REBEL LANDS AT THE GPO
https://londoncelticpunks.wordpress.com/2022/04/17/the-rockaway-rebel-of-the-easter-rising-john-the-yank-kilgallon/

“Of all the Irish-American towns in America, it had to be a Rockaway guy that wound up in the middle of the bloody battle at the Post Office” Often on these pages we have spoken of the Easter Risi…

10/01/2021

The song was inspired by Phil Lynott’s fascination with Irish history and Celtic mythology, and ironically was to become his epitaph. Go dtuga Dia suaimhneas da anam.

‘Róisín Dubh (Black Rose)’
Phil Lynott

Tell me the legends of long ago
When the kings and queens would dance
In the realm of the Black Rose
Play me the melodies I want to know
So I can teach my children, oh

Pray tell me the story of young Cú Chulainn
How his eyes were dark his expression sullen
And how he’d fight and always won
And how they cried when he was fallen

Read more | https://stairnaheireann.net/?p=63690

Image | Phil Lynott lookalike actor Miles Malambo

01/30/2021

Col. James A Mulligan
(d. 26 July 1864)
23rd Illinois Infantry (also known locally as Irish Brigade (per wiki))

“Lay me down and save the Flag”

01/20/2021

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/catalpa-rescue-escape-australia-perth/index.html

In 1876, a US gang sailed 20,000 kilometers to break six Irishmen out of an Australian prison. Now, a new generation of Australians is learning about the Catalpa escape, thanks to a display in the recently opened WA Museum Boola Bardip.

11/26/2020

11/18/2020

Dr. Ruan O'Donnell presents the story of how Irish America shaped and made possible the Easter Rising of 1916. Produced by Friends of Sinn Féin USA

11/18/2020

In the next week is the 100th anniversary of the British attack on Croke Park during the Dublin-Tipp match. While this is slightly outside the Fenian era, the GAA had a strong presence in this city. This short film (5 minutes) is beautifully well done.

https://twitter.com/officialgaa/status/1326479791579684869?s=21

“On 21 November 1920, 14 people went to a match in Croke park. They never came home. 100 years on, we remember our Bloody Sunday dead. - the GAA remembers. https://t.co/s2eR4iJIi3”

11/12/2020

Martin Hogan. Born this day 1833.

11/07/2020

Perfect day. Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Chicago
Martin Hogan, the Irish Nationalists of Chicago Monument, and Ricard O’Sullivan Burke.

10/31/2020

Gorgeous piece of cinematography; the language, acting, scenery, and history. This pre-dates the Fenian movement but walks us right to that point while depicting the horrors of genocidal starvation in a country full of food.

Free on Netflix, playing now.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3208026/

Directed by Lance Daly. With Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea, Freddie Fox. Set in Ireland during the Great Famine, the drama follows an Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, as he abandons his post to reunite with his family.

10/12/2020

After exploring the depths of a Stone Age tomb in Ireland, DNA extracted from the man buried in it revealed new details about Ireland's ancient ancestry.

10/10/2020

Patrick Cronin was murdered in May of 1889 by the Alexander wing of the Clan na Gael. He is buried at Clavary Cemetery, Evanston.

09/12/2020

Tá fadscannán faisnéise faoi fhear Gaeltachta a crochadh as brathadóir, duine de na Invincibles, a mharú, á dhéanamh faoi láthair ag an comhlacht léiriúcháin ROSG do TG4 ar láithreacha éagsúla timpeall na tíre. Chas Tuairisc.ie leo i gColáiste Chonnacht sa Spidéal i gConamara. Picti...

06/21/2020

This page was founded to honor the inseparable and unacknowledged bond between Fenianism and Chicago area. In many cases the very roots of Fenianism are found here (Denieffe, Devoy, R O'S Burke, the Catalpa). As much as we can the moderators do attempt to keep this the focus of all posts, with some respectful digressions.

I was recently alerted of a post regarding slavery. Peer-reviewed studies of the Irish experience with this immoral chapter in human history do not support those who claim the Irish experience was more severe than that of Africans brought to the United States against their will. The contrary is true. This shouldn't be a contest to begin with, but such posts occasionally make their way on to this page. I am certain they are well intended, but unfounded.

Irish Republicanism, as revived by the Young Irelanders, from which Fenianism rose, paid no heed to race, religion, or class. Fenianism had one agenda; I would like to respect that creed as much as possible here. If someone can cite peer-reviewed studies with footnotes and sources discussing the Irish experience with slavery --and its ties to the Chicago area, I would be absolutely fascinated to see them.

Many thanks. NPF

05/13/2020

James Connolly was executed this day in 1916. In 1909 he was a brief visitor to this city as guest speaker for numerous labor related events.

05/04/2020

Several days after the end of the Dublin Rising, the Chicago Tribune published a small piece on George and Richard Barrett of 4622 Magnolia Ave. These two young men had been students of St. Edna's School outside Dublin and spoke well schoolmaster Patrick Pearse, who had led the Rising as commander-in-chief. Within days of this publishing, however, Pearse, his brother Willie, and Thomas MacDonagh (each also of St Edna's), had been executed. The Barretts would have had rich insight of this rebellion, numerous students had taken part in the fighting and were possibly familiar to the brothers, but we find no real mention of them or their fates afterwards.