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Soldiers Of Liberty by Eva Cathaoir

Based on extensive archival research, this fascinating monograph rescues from obscurity the lives of over a thousand Fenians. Fenianism railed against the depopulation of a postFamine Ireland, asserting the rights of ordinary people in defi ance of the British Empire, then oft en supported by the emergent Catholic middle class. As a tenacious conspiracy, represented in these islands by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Fenianism propagated an independent, egalitarian republic through travelling organizers and radical newspapers, inspired by the ideals of Th eobald Wolfe Tone. Soldiers of Liberty traces the secret organization throughout Ireland, Britain, North America and Australasia, highlighting the contribution of Fenian women and the oft en tragic lives of committed activists, while revealing the hitherto-unknown fate of ubiquitous informers enlisted by Dublin Castle.
‘Fenianism’s role in Irish history is controversial and contestedIts penchant for splits, conspiracies, fi ascos and funerals is familiar ... Eva Ó Cathaoir’s panoramic survey is the fi rst comprehensive scholarly account of the movement from secretive beginning on St Patrick’s Day 1858 to enigmatic end in the mid-1920s.’ —CORMAC Ó GRÁDA
‘Fenianism’s role in Irish history is controversial and contested. Its penchant for splits, conspiracies, fi ascos and funerals is familiar ... Eva Ó Cathaoir’s panoramic survey is the fi rst comprehensive scholarly account of the movement from secretive beginning on St Patrick’s Day 1858 to enigmatic end in the mid-1920s.’ —CORMAC Ó GRÁDA
‘Fenianism’s role in Irish history is controversial and contested. Its penchant for splits, conspiracies, fi ascos and funerals is familiar ... Eva Ó Cathaoir’s panoramic survey is the fi rst comprehensive scholarly account of the movement from secretive beginning on St Patrick’s Day 1858 to enigmatic end in the mid-1920s.’ —CORMAC Ó GRÁDA
Fenianism’s role in Irish history is controversial and contested. Its penchant for splits, conspiracies, fiascos and funerals is familiar … Eva Ó Cathaoir’s panoramic survey is the first comprehensive scholarly account of the movement from secretive beginning on St Patrick’s Day 1858 to an enigmatic end in the mid-1920s. -- Cormac Ó Gráda
Eva Ó Cathaoir moved from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany, to Ireland on winning an Irish government scholarship to continue her studies at Trinity College Dublin. A historian and promoter of Irish heritage, she specializes in nineteenth-century history and has been published widely on the Poor Law, the Famine and the Fenian movement. Her works include A Portrait of Bray (1998) and contributions to Enniscorthy: A History, edited by Colm Tóibín (2010).
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ISBN 13 9781843517528
ISBN 10 1843517523
Title Soldiers Of Liberty
Author Eva Ó Cathaoir
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The Lilliput Press Ltd
Year published 2018-06-01
Number of pages 584
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