FENIANS, THEIR RAID ON CANADA, AND IRISH SOLDIERS AS REPORTED IN THE NEWS Wide-ranging collection of newspapers concerning prominent Irish officers during the Civil War, the Fenian raids on Canada, Fenian politics, and some early Irish-American publications. Includes individual newspaper illustrations of generals Thomas F. Meagher and Michael Corcoran, five copies of Irish Miscellany printed in Boston, 1858, a 12pp. general interest magazine sold to the Irish in that city; two New York newspapers reporting on praise given to Gen. Corcoran, as well as his funeral; eight copies of The Union, a Brooklyn newspaper, May 25 - June 12, 1866 reporting on the Fenians and the Fenian Raids into Canada; four 1865-66 copies of Harper's Weekly also offering reports and news on the Fenian movement; and an 1867 Harper's attacking "intolerant Rome". Also included are 25 copies of "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper", 19 of which are war-date, most from 1861, various news and plenty of engravings. Overall very good.