Screen LibraryIrish nationalists in America : the politics of exile, 1798-1998 /
"In this important work, 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 concluding...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"In this important work, 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 concluding with the role of Bill Clinton's White House in the historic 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, Brundage tells a story of more two hundred years of Irish American (and American) activism in the cause of Ireland"--Provided by publisher. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 288 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-275) and index. |
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9780195331776 019533177X |
| Index Number: | E184 |
| CLC: | K712.8 |
| Call Number: | K712.8/B894 |
| Contents: | The transatlantic odyssey of Theobald Wolfe Tone -- Irish exiles in a new republic, 1798-1829 -- Repeal, rebellion, and American slavery, 1829-1848 -- The Fenian movement, 1848-1878 -- The new departure in America, 1878-1890 -- Home rulers and republicans, 1890-1916 -- The Irish Revolution, 1916-1921 -- The long wait, 1921-1966 -- The American connection, 1966-1998. |