
S1E1 - Setting The Scene
The History of Ireland
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The History of the Irish Republican Brotherhood
Fynionism was as much an attitude as it was an organisation. One of the longest-running groups with a secret society set up by James Stevens. They were Republicans, but more differentiated by their willingness to use force than a clear-cut Republican ideal. Sinn Fein kind of took a middle ground between the homemoders and the more violent IRB - though they did lean closer to the IRB. Bulmer Hobson joined Griffith and brought a whole bunch of smaller nationalist movements together under the Sinn Fein banner. But that's not really these guys.
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