photograph album / Michael Fay, Fenian, 1868

Fenian photograph, one of 45 contained in a photograph album. Photograph, with handwritten description and personal details of a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, or Fenian Brotherhood, arrested c. 1868. Michael Fay, single, Harness maker, Private in American Army, age 21. Height 5 foot 8 1/8 inches, complexion dark, hair black, eyes hazel, nose and mouth regular, oval visage, stout make. Photograph numbered 21. A handwritten note at the back of the album reads ‘These photographs, except number 2 who was arrested in Manchester, were taken while the persons named, many of them it will be seen have held commissions in the U.S Army, were in custody in Ireland during the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, about 1868.;