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Book Fenian s Trace

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  • Author : Sean Mahoney
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-11-20
  • ISBN : 9780998320700
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Fenian s Trace written by Sean Mahoney and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FENIAN'S TRACE is the story of two young men raised as brothers in the west of Ireland during the early 1900s. Though they choose different paths when the rebellion comes, they both take a fancy to the spirited and alluring Maria upon her homecoming from America. It's told by a gruff old Limerick publican named Mr. Clancy, who refuses to let his gentle inebriation or any distractful facts trouble his tale. It's a story of secrets and sacrifice, fathers and sons, loyalty and love.

Book Fenians  Freedmen  and Southern Whites

Download or read book Fenians Freedmen and Southern Whites written by Mitchell Snay and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the American Civil War, several movements for ethnic separatism and political self-determination significantly shaped the course of Reconstruction. The Union Leagues mobilized African Americans to fight for their political rights and economic security while the Ku Klux Klan used intimidation and violence to maintain the political and economic hegemony of southern whites. Founded in 1858 as the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, the Irish American Fenians sought to liberate Ireland from English rule. In Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites, Mitchell Snay provides a compelling comparison of these seemingly disparate groups and illuminates the contours of nationalism during Reconstruction. By joining the Fenians with freedpeople and southern whites, Snay seeks to assert their central relevance to the dynamics of nationalism during Reconstruction and offers a highly original analysis of Reconstruction as an Age of Capital and an Age of Emancipation where categories of race, class, and gender -- as well as nationalism -- were fluid and contested. After the American Civil War, several movements for ethnic separatism and political self-determination significantly shaped the course of Reconstruction. The Union Leagues, which began during the war to support the northern effort, spread to the South after the war and mobilized African Americans to fight for their political rights and economic security. Opposing the Leagues was the Ku Klux Klan, which used intimidation and violence to maintain the political and economic hegemony of southern whites. Founded in 1858 as the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, the Irish American Fenians sought to liberate Ireland from English rule. Mitchell Snay provides a compelling comparison of these seemingly disparate groups in Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites, illuminating the contours of nationalism during Reconstruction. Despite their separate and often opposing goals, the Fenians, Union Leagues, and the Klan, Snay reveals, shared many characteristics. To various extents, they were secret societies that sought to advance their mission through both political and extra-political means. Both the League and the Klan employed elaborate rites of initiation and secret passwords common to nineteenth-century fraternal organizations. They also shared a similar political culture of secrecy, conspiracy, and countersubversion. All three groups were quasi-military in structure and activities and shared a desire for the control of land. Among the three organizations, Snay shows, the Fenians provide the clearest case of nationalist aspirations along the lines of ethnicity, though the rise of racial consciousness among both southern whites and blacks also might be seen as expressions of ethnic nationalism. According to Snay, the political culture of Reconstruction encouraged the nationalist ambitions of these groups, but channeled their separatist impulses along civil rather than ethnic lines by focusing on questions of freedom, citizenship, and suffrage. In addition, the Republican emphasis on color-blind equality limited overt expressions of national identities based solely on ethnicity or race.Unlike southern whites and blacks, Irish Americans are seldom mentioned in Reconstruction histories. By joining the Fenians with freedpeople and southern whites, Snay seeks to assert their central relevance to the dynamics of nationalism during Reconstruction and offers a highly original analysis of Reconstruction as an Age of Capital and an Age of Emancipation where categories of race, class, and gender -- as well as nationalism -- were fluid and contested.

Book Fenian Problem

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  • Author : Brian Jenkins
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0773534261
  • Pages : 457 pages

Download or read book Fenian Problem written by Brian Jenkins and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Fenians

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  • Author : Patrick Steward
  • Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
  • Release : 2013-07-17
  • ISBN : 1572339799
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book The Fenians written by Patrick Steward and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aspirations of social mobility and anti-Catholic discrimination were the lifeblood of subversive opposition to British rule in Ireland during the mid-nineteenth century. Refugees of the Great Famine who congregated in ethnic enclaves in North America and the United Kingdom supported the militant Fenian Brotherhood and its Dublin-based counterpart, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), in hopes of one day returning to an independent homeland. Despite lackluster leadership, the movement was briefly a credible security threat which impacted the history of nations on both sides of the Atlantic. Inspired by the failed Young Ireland insurrection of 1848 and other nationalist movements on the European continent, the Fenian Brotherhood and the IRB (collectively known as the Fenians) surmised that insurrection was the only path to Irish freedom. By 1865, the Fenians had filled their ranks with battle-tested Irish expatriate veterans of the Union and Confederate armies who were anxious to liberate Ireland. Lofty Fenian ambitions were ultimately compromised by several factors including United States government opposition and the resolution of volunteer Canadian militias who repelled multiple Fenian incursions into New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba. The Fenian legacy is thus multi-faceted. It was a mildly-threatening source of nationalist pride for discouraged Irish expatriates until the organization fulfilled its pledge to violently attack British soldiers and subjects. It also encouraged the confederation of Canadian provinces under the 1867 Dominion Act. In this book, Patrick Steward and Bryan McGovern present the first holistic, multi-national study of the Fenian movement. While utilizing a vast array of previously untapped primary sources, the authors uncover the socio-economic roots of Irish nationalist behavior at the height of the Victorian Period. Concurrently, they trace the progression of Fenian ideals in the grassroots of Young Ireland to its de facto collapse in 1870s. In doing so, the authors change the perception of the Fenians from fanatics who aimlessly attempted to free their homeland to idealists who believed in their cause and fought with a physical and rhetorical force that was not nonsensical and hopeless as some previous accounts have suggested. PATRICK STEWARD works in the Mayo Clinic Development Office in Rochester, Minnesota. He obtained a Ph.D. in Irish History at University of Missouri under the direction of Kerby Miller. Patrick additionally holds two degrees from Tufts University and he was a strategic intelligence analyst at the Drug Enforcement Administration in Washington, D.C. early in his professional career. BRYAN MCGOVERN is an associate professor of history at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. He is author of the widely praised 2009 book John Mitchel, Irish Nationalist, Southern Secessionist and has written various articles, chapters, and book reviews on Irish and Irish-American nationalism.

Book The Strong Spirit

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  • Author : Andrew Gibson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2013-02-28
  • ISBN : 0199642508
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Strong Spirit written by Andrew Gibson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study provides the first comprehensive historical account of Joyce's writings 1898-1915 in the context both of the distinct phases and shifting currents of British-Irish history during the period, and the sometimes rather different phases important in the works"--From jacket.

Book The Fenian Raid at Fort Erie  June the First and Second  1866

Download or read book The Fenian Raid at Fort Erie June the First and Second 1866 written by W. C. Chewett & Co and published by W.C. Chewett & Company. This book was released on 1866 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism

Download or read book Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism written by John O'Leary and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fenian Heroes and Martyrs  Edited  with an historical introduction on    The Struggle for Irish Nationality     by J  Savage

Download or read book Fenian Heroes and Martyrs Edited with an historical introduction on The Struggle for Irish Nationality by J Savage written by John SAVAGE (One of the Contributors to the “Irish Felon.”.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Proceedings at the First Sitting of the Special Commission for the County of the City of Dublin  Held at Green Street  Dublin  for the Trial of T  C  L   and Others  for Treason Felony     The Fenian Conspiracy     Commencing on Nov  27  1865

Download or read book Report of the Proceedings at the First Sitting of the Special Commission for the County of the City of Dublin Held at Green Street Dublin for the Trial of T C L and Others for Treason Felony The Fenian Conspiracy Commencing on Nov 27 1865 written by Thomas Clarke LUBY and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Living Age

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1867
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 860 pages

Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fenian Heroes and Martyrs

Download or read book Fenian Heroes and Martyrs written by John Savage and published by Boston : P. Donahoe. This book was released on 1868 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland

Download or read book Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland written by William Gregory Wood-Martin and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Narrative of the Fenian Invasion of Canada

Download or read book Narrative of the Fenian Invasion of Canada written by Alexander Somerville and published by Hamilton, C.W. [i.e. Ont.] : Published for the author by J. Lyght. This book was released on 1866 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Progress of the Church of Rome Towards Ascendancy in England  Traced Through the Parliamentary History of Forty Years     Third Edition   Fifth Thousand  With Appendix  Etc

Download or read book The Progress of the Church of Rome Towards Ascendancy in England Traced Through the Parliamentary History of Forty Years Third Edition Fifth Thousand With Appendix Etc written by John Campbell COLQUHOUN (M.P.) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Intelligence and the Fenians  1855 1880

Download or read book British Intelligence and the Fenians 1855 1880 written by Padraic C Kennedy and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-11-26 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how mid-Victorian efforts to gather information about the Fenians laid the foundation for later British domestic intelligence in both Ireland and mainland Britain. British Intelligence and the Fenians provides the first narrative account of the sustained and systematic use of espionage and secret policing in response to Fenianism between 1855 and 1880. It shows that despite the absence of a formal separate political police force or permanent intelligence agency, the British administration in Ireland created a sophisticated intelligence network to combat the revolutionary threat posed by the Fenian Brotherhood in America and the Irish Republican Brotherhood in Britain. The hub of this intelligence network was the Irish administration's "F. Department", which analysed thousands of reports about Fenianism from throughout Great Britain, North America, and continental Europe. Authorities also established a corresponding "separate and secret organization" in London. Such arrangement provided both Irish and English officials ready access to shared intelligence about Fenianism until the end of the 1870s. However, government's agents never managed to infiltrate the leadership of the Fenian organization in Ireland. Such failure left Ireland's rulers uncertain about Fenian intentions and prone to resort to extra-legal measures in response to perceived threats. The book makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of early political policing and espionage in Britain. By examining in detail what information was collected, how it was analysed and disseminated, and the use policy makers made of it, it more generally offers an interpretation of the role of intelligence in governing Ireland. PADRAIC C. KENNEDY is Associate Professor at the Department of History and Political Science, York College of Pennsylvania.

Book War in the Shadows

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  • Author : Shane Kenna
  • Publisher : Merrion Press
  • Release : 2013-11-30
  • ISBN : 1908928530
  • Pages : 407 pages

Download or read book War in the Shadows written by Shane Kenna and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: xx