Irish Freedom

Author : Richard English
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780330475822

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Irish Freedom by Richard English Pdf

Richard English's brilliant new book, now available in paperback, is a compelling narrative history of Irish nationalism, in which events are not merely recounted but analysed. Full of rich detail, drawn from years of original research and also from the extensive specialist literature on the subject, it offers explanations of why Irish nationalists have believed and acted as they have, why their ideas and strategies have changed over time, and what effect Irish nationalism has had in shaping modern Ireland. It takes us from the Ulster Plantation to Home Rule, from the Famine of 1847 to the Hunger Strikes of the 1970s, from Parnell to Pearse, from Wolfe Tone to Gerry Adams, from the bitter struggle of the Civil War to the uneasy peace of the early twenty-first century. Is it imaginable that Ireland might – as some have suggested – be about to enter a post-nationalist period? Or will Irish nationalism remain a defining force on the island in future years? 'a courageous and successful attempt to synthesise the entire story between two covers for the neophyte and for the exhausted specialist alike' Tom Garvin, Irish Times

Author : Angela F. Murphy
Publisher : Antislavery, Abolition, and th
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951D03080610S

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American Slavery, Irish Freedom by Angela F. Murphy Pdf

In American Slavery, Irish Freedom, Angela F. Murphy examines the interactions among abolitionists, Irish nationalists, and American citizens as the issues of slavery and abolition complicated the first transatlantic movement for Irish independence. For Irish Americans, the call of Old World loyalties, perceived duties of American citizenship, and regional devotions collided as the slavery issue intertwined with their efforts on behalf of their homeland. By looking at the makeup and rhetoric of the American repeal associations, the pressures on Irish Americans applied by both abolitionists and American nativists, and the domestic and transatlantic political situation that helped to define the repealers' response to antislavery appeals, Murphy investigates and explains why many Irish Americans did not support abolitionism.

Author : Dan Breen
Publisher : Childrens Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0947962336

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My Fight for Irish Freedom by Dan Breen Pdf

In 1919 a group of young men barely out of their teens, poorly armed, with no money and little training, renewed the fight, begun in 1916, to drive the British out of Ireland. Dan Breen was to become the best known of them. At first they were condemed on all sides. They became outlaws and My Fight describes graphically what life was like 'on the run,' with 'an army at one's heels and a thousand pounds on one's head'. A burning belief in their cause sustained them through many a dark and bitter day and slowly support came from the people.

Author : Terry Golway
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781785370410

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Irish Rebel by Terry Golway Pdf

Described by Padraig Pearse as the “greatest of the Fenians”, John Devoy was born before the Famine and lived to see the Irish tricolour flying from Dublin Castle. The descendent of a rebel family, he was an avowed Fenian who went into exile in New York in 1871. Over the next half-century he was the most-prominent leader of the Irish-American nationalist movement. Every Irish leader from Parnell to Pearse sought his counsel. He organised a dramatic rescue of Fenian prisoners from Australia, rallied Irish America behind the Land War, served as a middle man between the Easter rebels and the German government, and helped move Irish-American opinion in favour of the Treaty. When he died in 1928, Devoy was accorded a state funeral and a hero’s burial in Ireland. This new revised edition of the acclaimed biography of this overlooked architect of the Irish independence movement is also the story of Ireland, and of Irish-America, from the Famine to Freedom, examining the extraordinary cloak-and-dagger planning of the Easter Rising and the critical role of America in its outcome. “The Devoy story, in Terry Golway’s hands, combines wide scholarship and adventure: it reads like a novel. Get a comfortable chair when you read this book: you won’t be able to put it down.” – Frank McCourt “Terry Golway tells the story of this exceptional man with affection and deft narrative sense…this book will charm and enlighten readers.” – Thomas Keneally

Author : Michael Doorley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1801510105

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Irish-American Diaspora Nationalism by Michael Doorley Pdf

Author : Christopher Klein
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525434016

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When the Irish Invaded Canada by Christopher Klein Pdf

"Christopher Klein's fresh telling of this story is an important landmark in both Irish and American history." —James M. McPherson Just over a year after Robert E. Lee relinquished his sword, a band of Union and Confederate veterans dusted off their guns. But these former foes had no intention of reigniting the Civil War. Instead, they fought side by side to undertake one of the most fantastical missions in military history: to seize the British province of Canada and to hold it hostage until the independence of Ireland was secured. By the time that these invasions--known collectively as the Fenian raids--began in 1866, Ireland had been Britain's unwilling colony for seven hundred years. Thousands of Civil War veterans who had fled to the United States rather than perish in the wake of the Great Hunger still considered themselves Irishmen first, Americans second. With the tacit support of the U.S. government and inspired by a previous generation of successful American revolutionaries, the group that carried out a series of five attacks on Canada--the Fenian Brotherhood--established a state in exile, planned prison breaks, weathered infighting, stockpiled weapons, and assassinated enemies. Defiantly, this motley group, including a one-armed war hero, an English spy infiltrating rebel forces, and a radical who staged his own funeral, managed to seize a piece of Canada--if only for three days. When the Irish Invaded Canada is the untold tale of a band of fiercely patriotic Irish Americans and their chapter in Ireland's centuries-long fight for independence. Inspiring, lively, and often undeniably comic, this is a story of fighting for what's right in the face of impossible odds.

Author : Seán McManus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : British
ISBN : 1484909372

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Mac Ireland by Seán McManus Pdf

MAC IRELAND IS DESTINED TO BECOME YOUR FAVORITE IRISH HERO An intriguing, gripping and authentic Irish novel that eschews Irish stereotypes and Hollywood malarkey.Mac Ireland is the real deal - an authentic Irish rebel in the tradition of The Fenians and the men of the 1916 Easter Rising.Mac Ireland as a young idealistic Irish patriot sets out in the 1970s to drive England out of Ireland but quickly realizes he has to first drive British agents out of the IRA.The action-packed plot is brilliantly creative, with a theme that has not been touched on before: Mac Ireland hunts down British agents inside the IRA with the help of a Northern Ireland Protestant detective, whose family member is killed by agents of The Crown, and a Southern Irish detective, who is outraged by how the Dublin Government has sold out to the British Government.Mac Ireland is a man of action but also unexpectedly a man of learning. When not fighting the British Army or hunting down Irish traitors, he expounds on England's imperialism, Catholicism, Palestine, Zionism and American foreign policy.This is a riveting read - the first in a series -- and Mac Ireland will become your favorite Irish hero.

Author : Richard English
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Ireland
ISBN : UOM:39015066830657

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Irish Freedom by Richard English Pdf

Presents a narrative history of Irish nationalism. Drawn from original research and from specialist literature on the subject, this book offers explanations of why Irish nationalists have believed and acted as they have, why their ideas and strategies have changed over time, and what effect Irish nationalism has had in shaping modern Ireland.

Author : David Pierce
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300109946

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Light, Freedom and Song by David Pierce Pdf

In this absorbing analysis of modern Irish writing, an acknowledged expert considers the hybrid character of modern Irish writing to show how language, culture, and history have been affected by the colonial encounter between Ireland and Britain. Examining the great themes of loss and struggle, David Pierce traces the impact on Irish writing of the Great Famine and cultural nationalism and considers the way the work of Ireland’s two leading writers, W. B.Yeats and James Joyce, complicate and elucidate our view of "the harp and the crown.” The book draws a contrast between the West of Ireland in the 1930s, when the new Irish State enjoyed its first full independent decade, and the North of Ireland in the 1980s, when the spectre of British imperialism threatened the stability of Ireland. Pierce then surveys contemporary Irish writing and reflects on the legacy of the colonial encounter and on the passage to a postmodern or postnationalist Ireland in the work of such crucial living writers as John Banville, Derek Mahon, and John McGahern.

Author : Charles Callan Tansill
Publisher : New York, Devin-Adair
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Irish question
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080792620

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America and the Fight for Irish Freedom, 1866-1922 by Charles Callan Tansill Pdf

This book tells the story of Ireland's struggle for freedom which was waged by political and financial means in the United States as well as by force of arms and politics in Ireland. It gives the whole background of the generations of Irish revolt and the powerful roles played in America by the Clan-na-Gael and other groups, which eventually led to the Easter Week Rebellion of 1916. -- Publisher description.

Author : Eoin Swithin Walsh
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785371998

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Kilkenny by Eoin Swithin Walsh Pdf

Veteran IRA leader Ernie O’Malley criticised County Kilkenny as being ‘slack’ during the War of Independence, but this fascinating new study of the period, by historian Eoin Swithin Walsh, challenges that view and reveals that Kilkenny was truly at the forefront of the struggle for Irish freedom. No Kilkenny citizen escaped the revolutionary era untouched, especially during the turmoil that followed the Easter Rising of 1916, the upheaval of the War of Independence and the tumultuous Civil War. Key personalities, revolutionary organisations and dramatic events in Kilkenny illuminate the country-wide struggle. Not to be forgotten, the lives of the ‘ordinary’ men and women of the county are explored, emphasising a life beyond politics and conflict. The listing of Kilkenny fatalities during the War of Independence is examined and, for the first time, combatants and civilians who died during the Truce and the Civil War are recorded, revealing an even more deadly conflict than previously believed. Presenting a complete history of the county in the opening decades of the twentieth century – including the use of previously unseen archival material – Kilkenny: In Times of Revolution, 1900–1923 is an indispensable contribution to the literature on the turbulent birth of the Irish nation.

Author : Gerry Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015012802198

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The Politics of Irish Freedom by Gerry Adams Pdf

Author : Donal P. Corcoran
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780717157730

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Freedom to Achieve Freedom by Donal P. Corcoran Pdf

There is a huge library of books on the Irish revolutionary period but a dearth of material on the first ten years of independent Ireland. This book fills that gap in the literature. Freedom to Achieve Freedom reviews the processes of state-building and the policies adopted in all the major areas of government, paying particular attention to law and order, the creation of the Irish public service, land, health, education and the Irish language, as well as other areas of public policy. It is easy to forget that the establishment of a stable, democratic state in the circumstances in which Ireland found itself in 1922 was an achievement unique in Europe: all the other independent states that emerged from the rubble of World War I soon yielded to some form of authoritarian or fascist government. Considered in that light, the achievement of the founding fathers of the Irish state, so ably chronicled in this book, remains remarkable.

Author : Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
Publisher : Pathfinder Press (NY)
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : WISC:89017416199

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On the Irish Freedom Struggle by Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Pdf

"Oppression, discrimination, and injustice occur worldwide. We must fight them on a worldwide basis", Devlin McAliskey says in this 1982 speech. She describes how the U.S. civil rights movement influenced fighters for self-determination in Ireland, and explains how British imperialism's wars abroad are an extension of its attacks against workers in Britain.

Author : Meda Ryan
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781856357326

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Tom Barry by Meda Ryan Pdf

Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter chronicles the action-packed life of the Commander of the Third West Cork Flying Column, including the decisive Kilmichael ambush and the controversy regarding sectarianism during the 1920–22 period. Author, Meda Ryan, details his involvement on the fringes of the Treaty negotiations; his Republican activities during the Civil War; his engagement in the cease-fire/dump-arms deal of 1923; his term as the IRA's Chief of Staff and his participation in IRA conflicts in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and right up to his death in 1980. Includes an extensive body of primary source material, including Tom Barry's papers,