Arrival of the “Baringer”

I found information on the arrival of the Baringer in January 1870 at your website “The Maritime Heritage Project” date entered April 2009; Updated February 2011.

My question is regarding one of the sources cited as Daily Alta California. I got the Daily Alta California newspapers on microfilm but could not find any info about “As soon as the vessel reached the harbor, Mr. Smith, the Fenian Head Centre of California, etc.”

The reason I am asking is that one of the passengers, Eugene Geary, is my great grandfather. I am writing a story about his involvement in the 1867 uprising in Ireland, conviction of treason, etc. I have source material from everything except his arrival in San Francisco (other than the shipping info in the newspapers.)

Could you please tell me the actual sources for the arrival celebration?

Thank you,

M.F. Columbia, CA 95370

PS. The Headline in the Maritime Heritage Project “Arrival of Escaped Irish Political Prisoners”. The group that arrived aboard the Baringa were pardoned from Fremantle Prison.

Editor’s Note: The source for the article you mention regardingArrival of Escaped Irish Political Prisoners is the New York Herald, Thursday, January 17, 1870 as noted at the top of the article. Additional articles in have been found from the Daly Alta Californiaand the Sacramento Daily Union and are also included on that page.

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The Birth of the Fenian Movement American Diary, Brooklyn 1859
(Classics of Irish History)
Fenian Movment.

Fenians.James Stephens
American Diary is an important document of early Fenianism. It uncovers the difficulties facing the movement’s founders, and offers insight into mid nineteenth-century American life and the Irish-American community.

It is also one of Stephens’s scarce full-length pieces and one of the best written, although it has not previously been published in its entirety.

James Stephens (1825-1901) was born in Kilkenny. He founded the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Irish branch of the Fenian movement, in 1858.

The Fenians Were Dreadful Men: The 1867 RisingFenians.
Irish Republican Brotherhood.Fenians.

Padraig O Concubhair
This is the first new book in forty years to study the Fenian Rising, its background, and the foundation of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. It examines the 1867 Rising in detail, providing descriptions of the battles, the British response, and the civilian casualties that resulted.

Padraig O Concubhair is a member of the Clogher Historical Society, former President, and current Vice-President of the Kerry Historical and Archaeological Society. Vividly illustrated, the research is careful and thorough. – Irish American News

Ridgeway
The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle that Made Canada
The History of Canada
 

Investigative journalist and filmmaker Peter Vronsky uncovers the hidden history of the Battle of Ridgeway and explores its significance to Canada’s nation-building myths and traditions. On June 1, 1866, more than 1,000 Fenian insurgents invaded Canada across the Niagara River from Buffalo, N.Y. The Fenians were mostly battle-hardened Civil War veterans; the Canadian troops sent to fight them came from a generation that had not seen combat at home for more than 30 years. Led by inexperienced upper-class officers, the volunteer soldiers were mostly young; they were farm boys, shopkeepers, apprentices, schoolteachers, store clerks and two rifle companies of University of Toronto students hastily called out from their final exams. Many had never fired live rounds from their rifles.


Irish San Francisco
(Images of America: California)

John GarveyTag.
Irish in San Francisco.The Irish have always been an important part of San Francisco. An 1852 census showed that almost nine percent of the city of 36,000 hailed from Ireland; by 1900, nearly a quarter of the population had come here from the Emerald Isle. Today a walk through any part of the city will showcase influential Irish street names such as Downey, Fell, Kearney, O’Farrell, O’Shaughnessy, and McAllister. Churches such as St. Brigid’s and St. Patrick’s still are supported by many of the faithful, while landmark buildings such as the Fairmont, Phelan, and Flood stand sentinel over the city’s bustling downtown. Many businesspeople handle their finances through the successors of the original Hibernia Bank, established here by Irish immigrants in 1859. And after work, many folks like to relax with a pint at pubs such as Kate O’Brien’s, Abbey Tavern, or the Little Shamrock.

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