Show 1114 4 1 ci iv K i tin the auhl muncs are busy oc r tb the question what aalthe meaning nod and origin of the term fenian 11 A corres of theal the N Y evening post quotes from ossian a sentence in abich lich thu the name occurs bin po Y on ai foin pa yr Y fir r psalm Ps 1 to 0 aho li ala of thi tl lare are ardnel anne I 1 I 1 tho the question In estion wall wa addres ed by bj the mity poet fingal to stpatrick st patrick ancient manu manuscript scrip t works state ta t that there ther was in olden time liin a tri iribe bein in ireland 8 slid A id to be de descended d from ibe i adventurers from Phe neicia which gave fingal the word fenian clr sacramento un wn 9 n the following item on this subject gotten from terms 1 good authority I 1 abo term 11 fenian i n s derived from the gaelic word woid mann fann which is inflected feinne ft ane in the posses ire cise case in the neria beria tone tene or antiquated d gaelic it is written ritten fland fiand it was tile naw name a given to an order or class clas of professional soldiers soldier so or militia among the pagan in irish this order existed from the remotest times limes the flann fiann or bunian was a species ol of national guardi guard dr keathia tweaks of them thein z 11 ahey ivere nothing 8 me more re than members ot 01 a body of soldiers maintained by the iri irmi b kings for the purpose guarding of their ibi territories and up upholding bolding their authority jn in ordinary times limps the fiann or fenian consisted of three legions in each legion there were meiC men this was w whan iho t he nien men of ireland frere a at pei peace e brit in war whether for the ipp support t of f the dal ruda in scotland or against foreign on 0 their own soil there were usually se seven n legions in the fiann there ther were four TOWS laid upon every eiery feniah fenian n 10 never take a portion with a wife but to select her ber dorher for her virtues to oder efrer violence to a woman 31 never give giro a refusal to mortal roan man fth never to lico lice from less than nine warriors to which the reese river ille adds very go good od as far aa as it goes goa ilist alt it don t go 0 o far enough the word fenian I 1 is a no doubt originally derived from fen ang ins ferens the ancestor of the Ali leilan liuga lulaj tilt tue of the ibe english bf the cli effans of the fiann E bryin or feniane of ireland the iho most camolli and remarkable was finn son on of gombal in vulgar tradition I 1 cnown n own A u figun ilac maccool cool wils tho the of king kine I 1 cormac I 1 1 1 of blin t 0 a iak ji arton demarks ile he seems to have been a man of great talent for hi bi ageana age anil of celebrity in arms this foi mation of a regular standing army trained to u wr ar in vw web nil all irish accounts grep seems to been a rude imitation ol of the he roman legion in britain the idea though simple enough shows prudence for such ruch a force alone could hive have coped with arith the romans hid had they in invaded craded ire ireland and dia but this machine mac bina which burp surprised tided a tilde rude age anti and seems the basis baia of all fiands tanie fame only lived with A ith its author and expired soon niter after him the following is from 11 writers before chaucer irish tradition says aya that the were an ancient mili militia or a standing army employed only on home senica for or protecting the coasts from inai invasion ion ech each of 0 the four province s bays the tradition barl bad its band that of leinster to which fionn rind his family belonged being called clanna babi agne this militia its i said to have been paid by the he liing hing billeted on the people in the win winter but to bl have ave lived in by the iho chase 11 such is the given by irish tradition of the of or ancient Ir ireland cland defore before admi admill naion sion to the order the they were acted to certain gymnastics and other trials too longto long to be quoted here when allawas gone through with avith they bey bad to swear I 1 tally a ity anil and homage to the kin kins of 17 the flann fiann in our celtic legends I 1 I 1 we find mention of bridith Br ilith scottish Scotti C 0 lish ah O or alb land and even scandinavian mi military 11 ll bodif named flann ariann to that thai it would appears ap peari abc order na was snot not co to the celtic tribe it is from the flann E eirean ire 0 n that the fenian brotherhood its title it proposes propose sope one day to vindicate its claim to be the be national guard of i liberated ireland having first expelled her tyrnn ta native bame and foreign brorn her sop soil I 1 I 1 tho the teim itonia appear belonged to ibe wb I 1 e of bf tho th gaelic race alto tle the bards eay ay that it is one ol of the national names of that race and in R deri derived 11 from a mythical progenitor named nama feneis far sa a whom some would identity identify with the no less myth mythical cal abo phoenix enix of grecian story A avery old dd dialect of tho gaelic is cited in proof pi bof of this t is 1 issaya ical a brentus ail d ber burtn t el it a ahlas gatha gait lia scott 0 which being interpreter Interpret eI macans from froin denla called call cil i no ko dlag called baeli and ana acm ecta |