Fenian Problem

Author : Brian Jenkins
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773534261

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Fenian Problem by Brian Jenkins Pdf

Irish revolutionary nationalism, initially dedicated to insurgency, quickly descended into less conventional violence. How successive British governments responded to this challenge and the extent of their respect for essential freedoms are the subject of The Fenian Problem. Dramatic and tragic rescues of arrested Fenian leaders, the formation of a Fenian squad to assassinate suspected informers and policemen, the bombing of a London prison, public executions of Fenians, the quality of British justice, and the struggle to develop counter-terrorism policies and an effective system of intelligence form the core of The Fenian Problem. Brian Jenkins adds new information to the established narrative of the movement, arguing that it resorted to terrorism in its pursuit of Irish independence. Jenkins discusses the parallels between the government's treatment of Fenian prisoners in the 1860s and their handling of the IRA in the 1970s as well as the similarities between the challenges posed by Fenians and those presented by Islamic insurgents, showing that nineteenth-century British and Irish history illuminate contemporary discussions of state security and liberal government responses to terrorism. Book jacket.

Author : Brian Jenkins
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773576155

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Fenian Problem by Brian Jenkins Pdf

Dramatic and tragic rescues of arrested Fenian leaders, the formation of a Fenian squad to engage in assassinations of suspected informers and policemen, the bombing of a London prison that brought death and destruction to a neighbouring street, public executions of several Fenians, the quality of British justice, and the struggle to develop counter-terrorism policies and an effective system of intelligence form the core of The Fenian Problem. Brian Jenkins adds new information to the established narrative of the movement, arguing that it resorted to terrorism in its pursuit of Irish independence.

Author : O. Rafferty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230286580

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The Church, the State and the Fenian Threat 1861–75 by O. Rafferty Pdf

This book examines the mechanisms of the Irish revolutionary Fenian Brotherhood in the early years of its existence. Drawing on a wide range of material from places as diverse as Rome and Toronto it seeks to set the Fenian struggle within the context of competing church and state influence in mid-nineteenth century Irish society. It is particularly strong on the transatlantic comparative dimensions of church, state and Fenian activity, and demonstrates how the Fenians managed to change, forever, the terms of Irish political and social debate.

Author : David Sim
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801469688

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A Union Forever by David Sim Pdf

In the mid-nineteenth century the Irish question—the governance of the island of Ireland—demanded attention on both sides of the Atlantic. In A Union Forever, David Sim examines how Irish nationalists and their American sympathizers attempted to convince legislators and statesmen to use the burgeoning global influence of the United States to achieve Irish independence. Simultaneously, he tracks how American politicians used the Irish question as means of furthering their own diplomatic and political ends. Combining an innovative transnational methodology with attention to the complexities of American statecraft, Sim rewrites the diplomatic history of this neglected topic. He considers the impact that nonstate actors had on formal affairs between the United States and Britain, finding that not only did Irish nationalists fail to involve the United States in their cause but actually fostered an Anglo-American rapprochement in the final third of the nineteenth century. Their failures led them to seek out new means of promoting Irish self-determination, including an altogether more radical, revolutionary strategy that would alter the course of Irish and British history over the next century.

Author : Niels Eichhorn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030276409

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Atlantic History in the Nineteenth Century by Niels Eichhorn Pdf

This book argues that a vibrant, ever-changing Atlantic community persisted into the nineteenth century. As in the early modern Atlantic world, nineteenth-century interactions between the Americas, Africa, and Europe centered on exchange: exchange of people, commodities, and ideas. From 1789 to 1914, new means of transportation and communication allowed revolutionaries, migrants, merchants, settlers, and tourists to crisscross the ocean, share their experiences, and spread knowledge. Extending the conventional chronology of Atlantic world history up to the start of the First World War, Niels Eichhorn uncovers the complex dynamics of transition and transformation that marked the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.

Author : Gerard Noonan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781380260

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The IRA in Britain, 1919-1923 by Gerard Noonan Pdf

Based on archival sources and memoirs, traces the history of the Irish Volunteers in Britain beginning with their establishment in 1914, highlighting the role played by participants outside of Ireland during the revolution.

Author : Robert McGee
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781483409054

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Fenianism: The Toronto Reaction 1858-1868 by Robert McGee Pdf

Fenianism's effect on Catholic-Protestant relations in Toronto from the rise of Irish nationalism in 1858 to the assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee in 1868.

Author : David A. Wilson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773586451

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Thomas D'Arcy McGee by David A. Wilson Pdf

After a tumultuous career as a revolutionary in Ireland and an ultra-conservative Catholic in the United States, Thomas D'Arcy McGee moved to Canada in 1857, where he became a force for moderation and the leading Irish Canadian politician in the country. Determined that Canada should avoid the ethno-religious strife that afflicted Ireland, he articulated an inclusive, broad-minded nationalism based on generosity of spirit, a willingness to compromise, and a reasonable balance between order and liberty. To realize his vision, McGee became a strong supporter of the "new northern nationality." A spellbinding orator who emerged as the youngest and most intellectually gifted of the Fathers of Confederation, he fought what he saw as the atavistic and intolerant elements of Canadian life - the Orange Order, with its strident anti-Catholicism; the opponents of separate schools, whom he viewed as enemies of minority rights; and above all the Fenian Brotherhood, with its dreams of revolutionizing Ireland and annexing Canada to the United States. Convinced that compromise with Fenianism was impossible, he set out to destroy the movement through a strategy of confrontation and polarization - channeling his earlier extreme tendencies in the service of moderation and attempting to reduce the influence of Fenianism within his own community. In the process, he alienated many of his former supporters, who came to regard him as a traitor who sacrificed the cause of Irish nationalism on the altar of personal ambition. On 7 April 1868, McGee was assassinated on the doorstep of his Ottawa boarding house. As someone who took an uncompromising stand against militants within his own ethno-religious community, and who attempted to balance core values with minority rights, McGee has become increasingly relevant in today's complex multicultural society.

Author : Lucy E. Salyer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674057630

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Under the Starry Flag by Lucy E. Salyer Pdf

In 1867 forty Irish-Americans sailed for Ireland to fight against British rule. Claiming that emigrants to America remained British citizens, authorities arrested the men for treason, sparking a crisis and trial that dragged the U.S. and Britain to the brink of war. Lucy Salyer recounts this gripping tale, a prelude to today’s immigration battles.

Author : Don H. Doyle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691256115

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The Age of Reconstruction by Don H. Doyle Pdf

A sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the Americas The Age of Reconstruction looks beyond post–Civil War America to tell the story of how Union victory and Lincoln’s assassination set off a dramatic international reaction that drove European empires out of the Americas, hastened the end of slavery in Latin America, and ignited a host of democratic reforms in Europe. In this international history of Reconstruction, Don Doyle chronicles the world events inspired by the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1870, France withdrew from Mexico, Russia sold Alaska to the United States, and Britain proclaimed the new state of Canada. British workers demanded more voting rights, Spain toppled Queen Isabella II and ended slavery in its Caribbean colonies, Cubans rose against Spanish rule, France overthrew Napoleon III, and the kingdom of Pope Pius IX fell before the Italian Risorgimento. Some European liberals, including Victor Hugo and Giuseppe Mazzini, even called for a “United States of Europe.” Yet for all its achievements and optimism, this “new birth of freedom” was short-lived. By the 1890s, Reconstruction had been undone in the United States and abroad and America had become an exclusionary democracy based on white supremacy—and a very different kind of model to the world. At home and abroad, America’s Reconstruction was, as W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, “the greatest and most important step toward world democracy of all men of all races ever taken in the modern world.” The Age of Reconstruction is a bracing history of a remarkable period when democracy, having survived the great test of the Civil War, was ascendant around the Atlantic world.

Author : Kyle Hughes (Lecturer in British history),Donald M. MacRaild
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786940650

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Crime, Violence, and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century by Kyle Hughes (Lecturer in British history),Donald M. MacRaild Pdf

A collection of essays, based on original research delivered at one of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland's recent annual conferences.--Back book cover.

Author : Cian T. McMahon
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469620114

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The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity by Cian T. McMahon Pdf

Though Ireland is a relatively small island on the northeastern fringe of the Atlantic, 70 million people worldwide--including some 45 million in the United States--claim it as their ancestral home. In this wide-ranging, ambitious book, Cian T. McMahon explores the nineteenth-century roots of this transnational identity. Between 1840 and 1880, 4.5 million people left Ireland to start new lives abroad. Using primary sources from Ireland, Australia, and the United States, McMahon demonstrates how this exodus shaped a distinctive sense of nationalism. By doggedly remaining loyal to both their old and new homes, he argues, the Irish helped broaden the modern parameters of citizenship and identity. From insurrection in Ireland to exile in Australia to military service during the American Civil War, McMahon's narrative revolves around a group of rebels known as Young Ireland. They and their fellow Irish used weekly newspapers to construct and express an international identity tailored to the fluctuating world in which they found themselves. Understanding their experience sheds light on our contemporary debates over immigration, race, and globalization.

Author : Gordon L. Heath,Paul R. Wilson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608996810

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Baptists and Public Life in Canada by Gordon L. Heath,Paul R. Wilson Pdf

Public discussion about the relationship between religion and public life in Canada can be heated at times, and scholars have recently focused on the historical study of the many expressions of this relationship. The experience of Canada's smaller Protestant Christian groups, however, has remained largely unexplored. This is particularly true of Canada's Baptists. This volume, the first produced by the Canadian Baptist Historical Society, explores the connections between Baptist faith and Baptist activity in the public domain, and expands the focus of the existing scholarship to include a wide range of Canadian Baptist beliefs, attitudes, perspectives, and actions related to the relationship between Baptist faith and practice and public life.

Author : Niall Whelehan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107023321

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The Dynamiters by Niall Whelehan Pdf

A transnational history of the first urban bombing campaign, when Irish nationalists targeted symbolic British public buildings in the 1880s.

Author : León Ó Broin
Publisher : London : Chatto and Windus
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080792067

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Fenian Fever by León Ó Broin Pdf