Associations to the word «Fenian»

Wiktionary

FENIAN, noun. (British) (Irish) An Irish nationalist or republican.
FENIAN, noun. (historical) A member of the Fenian Brotherhood or the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Irish republican organizations active in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
FENIAN, noun. (derogatory) (Scotland and Northern Ireland) A Catholic, especially one of Irish ethnicity or descent.
FENIAN, noun. (derogatory) (Scotland and Northern Ireland) A supporter of Scottish association football club Celtic F.C.
FENIAN CYCLE, proper noun. (Irish mythology) A body of prose and verse focusing on the exploits of the mythological hero Fionn mac Cumhail and his warriors the Fianna Éireann.

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