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The Fenians in Ireland

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 16, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 27, No. 7.

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The Fenians in Ireland.

FENIANISM is showing itself pretty strong in Ireland, which fact is creating considerable astonishment and alarm among the nobility. The following figures show the number of Fenians in the several counties mentioned: Limerick, 6,000; Kerry, 1,500; Cork, 11,000; Waterford, 1,000; Tipperary, 7,000; Kilkenny, 800; Wexford, 12,000; Wicklow, 1,000; Clare, 500; Kildare, 500; Dublin, 8,000. This makes a total of nearly forty thousand men, and if we estimate it for the northern counties, where Fenianism is yet weak, and the government has more partisans, half as many, we shall conclude that there is at present a force of conspirators in Ireland nearly as great as the army with which Lee invaded the North in 1863.