Paul Bew
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199561261
- eISBN:
- 9780191701832
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199561261.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Political History
This chapter discusses fenianism, a form of militant Irish American nationalism after the failed 1848 rebellion in Ireland. The first section of this chapter describes the attempts to combine north ...
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This chapter discusses fenianism, a form of militant Irish American nationalism after the failed 1848 rebellion in Ireland. The first section of this chapter describes the attempts to combine north and south Ireland for the public end. This development owed everything to an unusual friendship between two rather different and very remarkable men, Charles Gavan Duffy and Dr. James McKnight. The second section looks at the rebirth of the Irish revolutionary tradition. Fenianism, as the new movement came to be called, linked the concerns and passions of patriotic young men in the homeland with the Irish-born of America and of England and Scotland. The third section examines the transition of fenianism from military elitism to popular politics. The fourth section reports on Isaac Butt, and the case for home rule.Less
This chapter discusses fenianism, a form of militant Irish American nationalism after the failed 1848 rebellion in Ireland. The first section of this chapter describes the attempts to combine north and south Ireland for the public end. This development owed everything to an unusual friendship between two rather different and very remarkable men, Charles Gavan Duffy and Dr. James McKnight. The second section looks at the rebirth of the Irish revolutionary tradition. Fenianism, as the new movement came to be called, linked the concerns and passions of patriotic young men in the homeland with the Irish-born of America and of England and Scotland. The third section examines the transition of fenianism from military elitism to popular politics. The fourth section reports on Isaac Butt, and the case for home rule.
