Invincibles

Invincibles, the (1882), a Fenian splinter group established with the plan of assassinating British government officials. On 6 May the Chief Secretary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and the Under-Secretary of State, Thomas Burke, were attacked with surgical knives and stabbed to death as they walked in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. Joe Brady, Tim Kelly, and Michael Kavanagh were arrested and hanged on the evidence of James Carey, who turned Queen's evidence.