Arming the Fenians

The weaponry of the IRB in the 1880s. BY ROBERT DELANEY In December 1881 a police raid on a property in Brabazon Street in Dublin uncovered a substantial cache of weapons and ammunition that were part of the Irish Republican Brotherhood’s (IRB) secret arsenal. Six months later, the police in London made an even larger ... Read more

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