Patrick J. Whelan
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Patrick James Whelan was an Irish-born tailor and suspected Fenian supporter who was executed after the assassination of Irish-Canadian journalist and politician Thomas D'Arcy McGee in Canada in 1868.
Engraving of Whelan's photograph
'`Poster advertising a reward for the killer's capture
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
Patrick J. Whelan
…Patrick James Whelan (c. 1840 – 11 February 1869) was an Irish-born tailor and suspected Fenian supporter who was executed after the assassination of Irish-Canadian journalist and politician Thomas D'Arcy McGee in Canada in 1868. He maintained his…
Supplement given with the Weekly Freeman of October 1883
John O'Mahony
James Stephens
Fenian Plot, Glasnevin, Dublin