Irish Nationalists in America
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In this important work of deep learning and insight, David Brundage gives us the first full-scale history of Irish nationalists in the United States. Beginning with the brief exile of Theobald Wolfe Tone, founder of Irish republican nationalism, in Philadelphia on the eve of the bloody 1798 Irish rebellion, and…
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Irish men and women in the United States launched a movement to liberate their homeland from British rule.
David Brundage’s Irish Nationalists in America, the first history of this movement as a whole, ranges across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, covering the full range of ideological positions—from peaceful constitutional change to an Irish republic achieved through violent means—and exploring how Irish-American nationalism intersected with movements for labor reform, racial equality, and women’s rights in the United States.
A skilled social and political historian, Brundage tells a vivid story about how ordinary immigrants built an extraordinary movement.
From Kevin's list on Irish immigration to the United States.
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