From the Sexton Collection
Album page from the Sean Sexton collection featuring revolutionaries from the U.S. and Ireland. The Fenians were a secret revolutionary movement aimed at establishing an Irish republic. A failed uprising in 1867 involved Fenians in Ireland, Britain and the U.S. This page includes police mugshots of Fenian prisoners Henry Hughes and Hugh McGrishin, 1865-66 taken in Northallerton Gaol.