The black hand of republicanism
Subtitle: Fenianism in modern Ireland
By: edited by Fearghal McGarry and James McConnel.
Contributors: McGarry, Fearghal.; McConnel, James Richard Redmond.
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780716529996
Subjects: Fenians -- Congresses; Republicanism -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses; Republicanism -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses; Ireland -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: "This book resulted from an international conference on Fenianism hosted in Belfast in June 2008 by the School of History and Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast and the School of History and International Affairs at the University of Ulster"--P. [vii].

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Fearghal McGarry and James McConnel; title: I. Mid-Victorian Fenianism : continuity and tension. The IRB and Young Ireland : varieties of tension / James Quinn ; National brotherhoods and national leagues : the IRB and its constitutional rivals during the 1860s / Marta Ramón ; The Irish People and the disciplining of dissent / Matthew Kelly; title: II. Popular politics and grassroots Fenianism. Permanent revolutionaries : the IRB and the land war in west Cork / Frank Rynne ; Gunfire in Hayes's Hotel : the IRB and the founding of the GAA / Paul Rouse ; A period of nationalist flux : the IRB and the growth of Devlinite nationalism in East Tyrone, 1902-1907 / Fergal McCluskey; title: III. The Fenian diaspora. 'Cheap as soap and common as sugar' : the Fenians, dynamite and scientific warfare / Niall Whelehan ; The prince and the Fenians, Australasia 1868-9 : republican conspiracy or orange opportunity? / Richard Davis ; 'The black hand of Irish republicanism'? : transcontinental Fenianism and theories of global terror / Máirtín Ó Catháin; title: IV. Print culture. Richard Pigott, the fringe-Fenian press and the politics of Irish nationalist transition to Parnellism / Margaret O'Callaghan ; Narratives of confinement : Fenians, prisons and writing, 1867-1916 / William Murphy; title: V. Contexts and concepts. Fenianism : the scope and limitations of a concept / R.V. Comerford ; The Fenians and the international revolutionary tradition / Peter Hart.