In their long struggle for independence from British rule, Irish republicans had long looked west for help, and with reason. The Irish-American population in th

The first account of America's role in, and views on, Easter 1916 and its significance in the evolution of Irish America.

Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States.

25 scholars excavate the ways in which the US was a critical theatre of war during the Irish fight for independence. It is the first work to assess the range an

Described by Padraig Pearse as the “greatest of the Fenians”, John Devoy was born before the Famine and lived to see the Irish tricolour flying from Dublin