Irish Republican Brotherhood

…several other leaders of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, which was a revolutionary society within the nationalist organization called the Irish Volunteers; the latter had about 16,000 members and was armed with German weapons smuggled into the country in 1914. These two organizations were supplemented by the Irish Citizen Army, an…

…outbreak of the war, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB; popularly known as Fenians), who had been quiescent since the failure of their rebellion in 1867, had been secretly reorganizing. When war came they made plans for another rebellion against the British. With the help of the Irish Citizen Army, a…

…that a Fenian organization, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, had revived and was secretly recruiting membership through various cultural societies and through the Gaelic Athletic Association, founded in 1884 to promote specifically Irish sports.

…came to be called the Irish Republican Brotherhood. The Fenians at first met with little success, causing Stephens to express a great deal of resentment toward O’Mahony. But by 1865 the Fenian Brotherhood had grown large and prosperous, and it was able to send both arms and money to Ireland.