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Irish Nationalists in America - The Politics of Exile, 1798-1998 (Paperback)
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Irish Nationalists in America - The Politics of Exile, 1798-1998 (Paperback)
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In this important work of deep learning and insight, David Brundage
gives us the first full-scale history of Irish nationalists in the
United States. Beginning with the brief exile of Theobald Wolfe
Tone, founder of Irish republican nationalism, in Philadelphia on
the eve of the bloody 1798 Irish rebellion, and concluding with the
role of Bill Clinton's White House in the historic 1998 Good Friday
Agreement in Northern Ireland, Brundage tells a story of more than
two hundred years of Irish American (and American) activism in the
cause of Ireland. The book, though, is far more than a narrative
history of the movement. Brundage effectively weaves into his
account a number of the analytical themes and perspectives that
have transformed the study of nationalism over the last two
decades. The most important of these perspectives is the "imagined"
or "invented" character of nationalism. A second theme is the
relationship of nationalism to the waves of global migration from
the early nineteenth century to the present and, more precisely,
the relationship of nationalist politics to the phenomenon of
political exile. Finally, the work is concerned with 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 that is one of
the book's most important contributions. Irish nationalism in
America emerges from these pages as a movement of great resonance
and power. This is a work that will transform our understanding of
the experience of one of America's largest immigrant groups and of
the phenomenon of diasporic or "long-distance" nationalism more
generally.
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