Chronology of Fenian bombings and conspiracy in Britain, 1881-1885 -- Preface: Who were the Fenians? -- Introduction -- Irish-American retribution and the trans-Atlantic conspiracy -- The skirmishers at large -- Political crisis and the dirty war in the shadows -- Bombs across Britain -- Das agents provocateurs -- Clan na Gael and the Gallagher Conspiracy -- The escalating dynamite campaign -- The mysterious case of John Daly -- The ceasefire and counter Fenian strategy as political action -- The fall of Edward George Jenkinson -- The Mexican general and the game of shadows -- The game of shadows revealed: Irish-American conspiracy on trial -- Conclusion
Summary
The transformation from regular warfare to the strategy of a war of attrition within urban centres was an enormous development within the history of Irish Fenianism. Having its origins in the complex world of Irish-American politics, the Fenian dynamite campaign in Victorian Britain was undertaken between 1881 and 1885 and was largely a response to the failures of Fenianism in the previous decade. Involving many well-known Fenians, such as Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Thomas James Clarke and Denis Deasy, who died in British custody following arrest for his role in the bombings, the campaign wa
