Hibernian Rifles

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The Hibernian Rifles where one of a number of Irish Nationalist private militias groups which were organised in the USA.[1]

The Rifles were the Military Arm of the A.O.H. (Irish-American Alliance) who had broken away from the A.O.H. (Board of Erin ) in 1907.

Most of their activty was in the USA where the movement was under the influence of Clan-na-Gael.

J. Scollan, a Commandant of the Rifles, stated in a lecture on 'Treason in Ireland', given to the Michael Dwyer Sinn Féin Cumann on December 16th 1914, "Many more of us through God's grace shall live to see the Union Jack of England down in the dust and our own immortal green interwoven with the yellow and white of the Irish Republic waving proudly and victoriously over the land."

The Rifles took part in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin,

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  1. ^ "Dublin flames kindled a nation's spirit". Irish Independent 1916-66 Supplement. Retrieved on 13 March 2007.
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