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100 1 Steward, Patrick.
245 14 The Fenians :|bIrish rebellion in the North Atlantic world,
1858-1876 /|cPatrick Steward and Bryan McGovern.
250 1st ed.
264 1 Knoxville :|bUniversity of Tennessee Press,|c[2013]
264 4 |c©2013
300 1 online resource (xviii, 315 pages) :|billustrations
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 computer|bc|2rdamedia
338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier
500 Originally presented as the authors' thesis under title:
Erin's Hope.
504 Includes bibliographical reference (pages 283-306) and
index.
505 0 The foundations of Fenianism -- The fighting Irish --
Green Americans -- Fenian renaissance -- Fenian fizzle --
"No event of any importance" -- Fenianism on the defensive
-- Last hurrahs.
520 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.
588 0 Print version record.
590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription History
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700 1 McGovern, Bryan P.
776 08 |iPrint version:|aSteward, Patrick.|tFenians.|b1st ed.
|dKnoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2013
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