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Irish secret society
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The "Invincibles" were a secret society and a splinter group of Fenians responsible for the Phoenix Park murders in Dublin in 1882. They murdered Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish, the chief secretary for Ireland, and Thomas H. Burke, the permanent undersecretary, on May 6, 1882. The Fenians were an Irish nationalist secret society active in the 1860s, with plans for a rising against British rule in Ireland. The name "Fenian" derives from the Fianna Eireann, legendary Irish warriors.12

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