Lizzie Burns
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Lydia "Lizzie" Burns was a working-class Irish woman, the wife of German philosopher Friedrich Engels.
Burns, c. 1865
Fenians
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The Fenians were Irish republican revolutionaries that sought to achieve the independence of Ireland from the British Empire in the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. The main
Lizzie Burns
…dedicated player in the Irish Republican movement, and the house she shared with Engels at 86 Mornington Street was a meeting place and a safe house for Fenian activists. She was freedom-loving, uncorseted, fiercely political and sparkling with fun". Lizzie had considerable influence on the young Eleanor Marx…
Supplement given with the Weekly Freeman of October 1883
John O'Mahony
James Stephens
Fenian Plot, Glasnevin, Dublin