The United Irishmen
The United Irishmen

Author: David Dickson

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13:

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The 1790s, coloured by revolutions in France and North America, were to see the birth of republicanism in Ireland and the emergence of radical Presbyterianism in the north. This decade is increasingly being considered as one of the most formative in modern Irish history. This book includes fresh interpretations of the period by 22 distinguished international historians, all contributors to the 1991 conference marking the bicentenary of the founding of the Societies of United Irishmen in Belfast and Dublin. These scholarly evaluations give a fascinating composite portrait of 1790s Ireland, a crucible of nationalism, nascent 19th century democratic politics and social and cultural change. They make a significant contribution to the study and understanding of Irish history. -- Publisher description.

Wolfe Tone
Wolfe Tone

Author: Marianne Elliott

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1846318076

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Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–98) was one of the founders of the Irish Republican national movement, and his political ideas and the circumstances of his life and early death have become powerful political weapons in the hands of later nationalists. Today his name still arouses strong emotions, and he is hailed as the first prophet of an independent Ireland. Tracing Tone's life from his upbringing as a member of the Protestant elite to his exile, trial, and suicide, this new edition of the awardwinning biography brings the book up to date with new scholarship and fresh historical insights.

The United Irishmen, Their Lives and Times
The United Irishmen, Their Lives and Times

Author: Richard Robert Madden

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2018-02-15

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781377484150

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May Tyrants Tremble
May Tyrants Tremble

Author: Fergus Whelan

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781788551212

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Despite the rich sources available, Society of United Irishmen founder and leader William Drennan is long overdue a comprehensive biography. May Tyrants Tremble fills that gap with significant new research to demolish the historical consensus that, after being acquitted at his 1794 trial for sedition, Drennan withdrew from the United Irish movement. In fact, as Fergus Whelan demonstrates using new archival material, Drennan remained a leading voice of Presbyterian radicalism until his death in 1820 and his ideals, along with those of Wolfe Tone and other pivotal United Irishmen, formed the basis of Ireland's republic. From the outset, Drennan had produced United Irish literary propaganda and Whelan offers new evidence that Drennan was 'Marcus, ' author of the most seditious material published in Dublin in 1797 and 1798. The prevailing view that Ulster Presbyterian Drennan was an anti-Catholic bigot is also shown to be baseless; on the contrary, throughout his life Drennan championed Catholic Emancipation. Whelan also shines a light on one of the great mysteries of Irish history: what happened to Presbyterian republicanism after 1798? May Tyrants Tremble repositions Drennan firmly as the father of Irish democracy, whose vision for a republic has shaped the very soul of modern Ireland.

The United Irishmen
The United Irishmen

Author: Nancy J. Curtin

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 9780198207368

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Comprehensive and multifaceted ... While avoiding biography she conveys a clear sense of who the United Irishmen were and what they were after. History.

United Irishmen, United States
United Irishmen, United States

Author: David A. Wilson

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780801477591

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Among the thousands of political refugees who flooded into the United States during the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, none had a greater impact on the early republic than the United Irishmen. They were, according to one Federalist, "the most God-provoking Democrats on this side of Hell." "Every United Irishman," insisted another, "ought to be hunted from the country, as much as a wolf or a tyger." David A. Wilson's lively book is the first to focus specifically on the experiences, attitudes, and ideas of the United Irishmen in the United States.Wilson argues that America served a powerful symbolic and psychological function for the United Irishmen as a place of wish-fulfillment, where the broken dreams of the failed Irish revolution could be realized. The United Irishmen established themselves on the radical wing of the Republican Party, and contributed to Jefferson's "second American Revolution" of 1800; John Adams counted them among the "foreigners and degraded characters" whom he blamed for his defeat.After Jefferson's victory, the United Irishmen set out to destroy the Federalists and democratize the Republicans. Some of them believed that their work was preparing the way for the millennium in America. Convinced that the example of America could ultimately inspire the movement for a democratic republic back home, they never lost sight of the struggle for Irish independence. It was the United Irishmen, writes Wilson, who originated the persistent and powerful tradition of Irish-American nationalism.

The Mighty Wave
The Mighty Wave

Author: Dáire Keogh

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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A collection of papers delivered to the inaugural Comoradh '98 Conference in Wexford, together with a selection of the proceedings of the first Byrne-Perry Summer School, both of which were held in 1995.