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Thomas Joseph Kelly (6 January 1833 – 5 February 1908) [1] was an Irish revolutionary and leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), a secret organisation with the objective of establishing an Irish republic independent from the United Kingdom. Kelly was the nominal leader of the failed Fenian Rising of 1867.
In Manchester August 1867 Thomas Kelly was declared Chief Organiser of the Irish Republic (COIR), in succession to Stephens. The arrest and subsequent rescue of Kelly with Timothy Deasy in September 1867 resulted in the execution of the Manchester Martyrs. Kelly escaped to USA and remained associated with the IRB.
Thomas J. Kelly (Irish nationalist) (1833–1908), Irish revolutionary and leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood; Thomas Kelly (Sinn Féin politician) (1868–1942), Irish Sinn Féin and later Fianna Fáil politician; Thomas Kelly (Canadian politician) (1833–1893), Canadian lawyer, judge and politician in Prince Edward Island
Thomas McCarthy Fennell; William Goold; Arthur Griffith; Michael Grimes, Irish scientist and first Professor of Microbiology at University College Cork; Bulmer Hobson; Martin Hogan, member of the IRB who deserted from the British Army to join the Fenian uprising [1] [2] Thomas J. Kelly, President of the Irish Republican Brotherhood during 1866 ...
The Irish National Invincibles, usually known as the Invincibles, were a militant organisation based in Ireland active from 1881 to 1883. Founded as splinter group of the Irish Republican Brotherhood , [ 1 ] the group had a more radical agenda, and was formed with an intent to target those who implemented English policies in Ireland.
The Dynamiters: Irish Nationalism and Political Violence in the Wider World, 1867-1900. Cambridge University Press. McKenna, Joseph The Irish-American Dynamite Campaign: A History, 1881-1896 (2012) McFarland & Co
Irish historian Marc Caball, on the other hand, claims that "early modern Irish nationalism" began to be established after the Flight of the Earls (1607), based on the concepts of "the indivisibility of Gaelic cultural integrity, territorial sovereignty, and the interlinking of Gaelic identity with profession of the Roman Catholic faith". [14]
In December 1866, the Fenian Brotherhood sent both O'Meagher Condon and Thomas J. Kelly to Ireland with the intention that they, alongside many other Irish-American veterans of the Civil War, would lead a rebellion against the British. The Rising suffered from poor planning, and logistical difficulties (most of the Fenians coming from the ...