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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 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.
The book, though, is far more than a narrative history of the movement. Brundage also effectively weaves into his account a number of the analytical themes and perspectives that have transformed the study of nationalism over the last two decades. The most important of these perspectives is the "imagined" or "invented" character of nationalism. A second theme is the relationship of nationalism to the waves of global migration from the early nineteenth century to the present and, more precisely, the relationship of nationalist politics to the phenomenon of political exile. Finally, the work is concerned with Irish American nationalists' larger social and political vision, which sometimes expanded to embrace causes such as the abolition of slavery, women's rights, or freedom for British colonial subjects in India and Africa, and at other times narrowed, avoiding or rejecting such "extraneous concerns and connections. All of these themes are placed within a thoroughly transnational framework that is one of the book's most important contributions.
Irish nationalism in America emerges from these pages as a movement of great resonance and power. This is a work that will transform our understanding of the experience of one of America's largest immigrant groups and of the phenomenon of diasporic or "long-distance" nationalism more generally.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Transatlantic Odyssey of Theobald Wolfe Tone
Chapter 2: Irish Exiles in a New Republic, 1798-1829
Chapter 3: Repeal, Rebellion, and American Slavery, 1829-1848
Chapter 4: The Fenian Movement, 1848-1878
Chapter 5: The New Departure in America, 1878-1890
Chapter 6: Home Rulers and Republicans, 1890-1916
Chapter 7: The Irish Revolution, 1916-1921
Chapter 8: The Long Wait, 1921-1966
Chapter 9: The American Connection, 1966-1998
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
