United Irishmen, United States
Subtitle: immigrant radicals in the early republic
By: David A. Wilson.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: United Irishmen; Irish Americans -- Politics and government; Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 18th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1809; Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820
Description: 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 book is the first to focus specifically on the experiences, attitudes, and ideas of the United Irishmen in the United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-212) and index.