Fenian Ghosts: The Spectre of Irish Republicanism in Ethnic Relations in Newfoundland

• Main Author: Keough, Willeen G.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Edinburgh University Press 2020
• Subjects: The Spectre; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474459037.003.0009

By charting various manifestations of Irish republican sympathy in Newfoundland from the late eighteenth century into the early twentieth century, this chapter highlights the historical memory of grievance among the Newfoundland Irish. The Fenian scare of the late 1860s in Port de Grave, Conception...