Associations to the word «Fenian»

Wiktionary

FENIAN, noun. (British) (Irish) An Irish nationalist or republican.
FENIAN, noun. (historical) A member of the Fenian Brotherhood or the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Irish republican organizations active in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
FENIAN, noun. (derogatory) (Scotland and Northern Ireland) A Catholic, especially one of Irish ethnicity or descent.
FENIAN, noun. (derogatory) (Scotland and Northern Ireland) A supporter of Scottish association football club Celtic F.C.
FENIAN CYCLE, proper noun. (Irish mythology) A body of prose and verse focusing on the exploits of the mythological hero Fionn mac Cumhail and his warriors the Fianna Éireann.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats