Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798–1998
David Brundage
Abstract
This book is a full-scale history of Irish nationalists in the United States from the brief exile of Theobald Wolfe Tone, founder of Irish republican nationalism, in Philadelphia on the eve of the 1798 Irish rebellion to the role of Bill Clinton’s White House in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. Irish American nationalism is seen as an example of a larger phenomenon, sometimes called diasporic or “long-distance” nationalism. Into the narrative are woven a number of the analytical perspectives that have recently transformed the study of nationalism, including its “imagined” or ... More
This book is a full-scale history of Irish nationalists in the United States from the brief exile of Theobald Wolfe Tone, founder of Irish republican nationalism, in Philadelphia on the eve of the 1798 Irish rebellion to the role of Bill Clinton’s White House in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. Irish American nationalism is seen as an example of a larger phenomenon, sometimes called diasporic or “long-distance” nationalism. Into the narrative are woven a number of the analytical perspectives that have recently transformed the study of nationalism, including its “imagined” or “invented” character and its relationship to the waves of global migration from the early nineteenth century to the present (and especially the relationship of nationalist politics to the phenomenon of political exile). The book focuses also on 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, with attention to events in Ireland, the United States, and the wider Irish diaspora.
Keywords:
Irish American nationalism,
global migration,
long-distance nationalism,
political exile,
abolition,
women’s rights,
Irish diaspora
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195331776 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2016 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331776.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
David Brundage, author
Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz
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