James Stephens (Fenian)
James Stephens (26 January 1825 - 29 March 1901) was an Irish Republican and the founding member of an originally unnamed revolutionary organisation in Dublin on 17 March 1858, later to become known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood (I.R.B), also referred to as the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood by contemporaries.
Read more about James Stephens (Fenian): Early Life, Young Ireland and 1848, Paris Exile, 3,000 Mile Walk, Founding of The IRB, America, America Diary, Irish People, Arrest and Suppression, Escape, Death of James Stephens, Conclusion
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“When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.”
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“A woman is a branchy tree
And man a singing wind;
And from her branches carelessly
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