semi-fenian

Updated: June 3, 2025

Then "the party," by which Barrington Erle probably meant the great man in whose service he himself had become a politician, required that the candidate should be a safe man, one who would support "the party," not a cantankerous, red-hot semi-Fenian, running about to meetings at the Rotunda, and such-like, with views of his own about tenant-right and the Irish Church.

Anthony Trollope - Phineas Finn: The Irish Member