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  • Your argument is akin to arguing "fenian" only refers to Irishmen of a militant persuasian.

    The World's Best Dieting Aid Alan Smart 2009

  • I object hugely to having such a detailed piece on the beeboid website, it gives the fenian nutjob behind this the further oxygen of publicity and several score million muzzies can now read it world wide, it having the pseudo legitimacy of appearing on the beeboid website.

    OPEN THREAD 2009

  • Well, you must live in exalted company because not one Rangers fan I know takes being called a hun, with anything other than the same disgust as a Celtic fan being called a fenian.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • The gossip of his fellow-students which strove to render the flat life of the college significant at any cost loved to think of him as a young fenian.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

  • I read a snacth of a James Joyce biography today wherein JJ befriends an old fenian named Joe Casey in France.

    joegood Diary Entry joegood 2002

  • The gossip of his fellow-students which strove to render the flat life of the college significant at any cost loved to think of him as a young fenian.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

  • Didn't they denounce the fenian movement from the pulpit and in the confession box?

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

  • The gossip of his fellow-students which strove to render the flat life of the college significant at any cost loved to think of him as a young fenian.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

  • Didn't they denounce the fenian movement from the pulpit and in the confession box?

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

  • Through information received from the Archbishop of New York and other American friends the cardinal was convinced of the upright character of the accused who had been betrayed by false reports to engage in tehe fenian enterprise, impelled by the sole motive of love of his native land.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

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