Stories of the arrest of my great-grandfather William Casey in the 1860s as a Fenian was one of the reasons why I later studied that movement. The history of the early Fenian Movement in Skibbereen was the subject of my 2016 Master’s dissertation. In 2018 that led to the publication of my first book ‘The Cradle of Fenianism’: Skibbereen and the Early Fenian Movement, 1850–67. For more information click here.