John O'Mahony was one of the founders of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. He was born in 1816, in Kilbeheny, in County Cork, Ireland. His father and uncle had been members of the United Irishmen, and had taken part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) was a secret fraternal organisation dedicated to fomenting armed revolt against the British state in Ireland in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. ... 1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Statistics Province: Munster County Town: Cork Code: C (CK proposed) Area: 7,457 km² Population (2006) 480,909 (including City of Cork); 361,766 (without Cork City) Website: www. ... The Society of the United Irishmen was a political organisation in eighteenth century Ireland that sought independence from Great Britain. ... The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Éirí Amach 1798 in Irish), or 1798 rebellion as it is known locally, was an uprising in 1798, lasting several months, against the British dominated Kingdom of Ireland. ...

He ignored the ban by the Roman Catholic Church on its adherents attending Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied Sanskrit, Hebrew and Irish. The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church (see terminology below) is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. It traces its origins to the original Christian community founded by Jesus Christ and led by the Twelve Apostles, in particular Saint Peter. ... Trinity College, Dublin, corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I, and is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Irelands oldest university. ... The Sanskrit language ( , for short ) is an old Indo-Aryan language from the Indian Subcontinent, the classical literary language of the Hindus of India[1], a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and one of the 23 official languages of India. ... Hebrew redirects here. ...

He joined Daniel O'Connell's movement for the Repeal of the Union, but quickly became dissatisfied with the lack of progress. He joined the Young Irelander movement and took part in their failed rebellion in 1848. He left Ireland for France, and moved to the United States in 1854. Daniel OConnell Daniel OConnell (6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847) (Irish: Dónal Ó Conaill), known as The Liberator or The Emancipator, was Irelands predominant political leader in the first half of the nineteenth century who championed the cause of the down-trodden Catholic population. ... The Act of Union 1800 merged the Kingdom of Ireland and the Kingdom of Great Britain (itself a merger of England and Wales and Scotland under the Act of Union 1707) to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801. ... Young Ireland was an Irish nationalist revolutionary movement, active in the mid-nineteenth century. ...

In 1858, he helped found the American wing of the IRB, initially known as the Fenian Brotherhood. Because of his popularity among Irish-Americans he was soon-after made a colonel in the mainly Irish 69th Regiment of the Union Army, which fought in the American Civil War. He helped organise the first of the Fenian Raids into the then British colony of Canada in 1866 and the Fenian Rising in Ireland in 1867. He died in 1877 and was interred in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. The Fenian Brotherhood was an Irish nationalist organization based in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. ... Irish population density in the United States, 1872. ... The 21st Michigan Infantry, a company of Shermans veterans. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Fenian Monument - Queens Park, Toronto Canada ca. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Bold textItalic textLink title{| class=wikitable |- ! header 1 ! header 2 ! header 3 |- | row 1, cell 1 | row 1, cell 2 | row 1, cell 3 |- | row 2, cell 1 | row 2, cell 2 | row 2, cell 3 |} Block quote Note: This was originially a subsection of Fenian Brotherhood. ... Glasnevin Cemetery, also known as Prospect Cemetery, is the main Catholic cemetery in Dublin, the capital of Ireland. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ...