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Ireland's allies :

Ireland's allies : America and the 1916 Easter Rising / edited by Miriam Nyhan Grey ; [foreword by J. J. Lee] - Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 2016. - xxxi, 480 pages : illustations, map, portraits ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-470) and index.

This volume places the Rising in a transnational and transatlantic setting. In the process, this book expands our understanding of ethnic allegiances and the mechanics of revolutionary networks and diaspora nationalism. Irish cultural and political nationalists, especially in New York had worked assiduously for years to mobilise American opinion against the British presence in Ireland ... Twenty-five scholars excavate the ways in which the United States was a critical theatre of war in Ireland's journey towards independence ...

9781910820131 (hb)

2016497214


Irish--United States.
Irish--History.--United States
Irish Americans--History.
Nationalism--History--Ireland--20th century.


Ireland--History--Easter Rising, 1916.
Dublin (Ireland)--History--20th century.

DA962 / .I685 2016

941.50821

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