sentences:  According to Gwynn, he was imprisoned at least five times as a result of his republican activities, and also went to the USA as an Irish Fenian delegate in 1874.A political turning-point came when the constitutional Home Rule League leader Charles Stewart Parnell came on a visit to Cork.O'Connor was credited with a leading part in a plot laid by Fenians to kidnap Parnell when his train stopped at Blarney station for ticket collecting.