Irish rebel
Subtitle: John Devoy and America's fight for Ireland's freedom
By: Terry Golway
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780312181185
Copyright date: 1998
Subjects: Devoy, John, 1842-1928; Revolutionaries -- Ireland -- Biography; Irish Americans -- Attitudes; Fenians -- Biography; Ireland -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements; Ireland -- Foreign public opinion, American; Ireland -- History -- 1837-1901 -- Biography
Description: In 1871, John Devoy, a young Irishman fighting for Irish independence, came to the United States in exile. Yet even while across the ocean, this Fenian greatly influenced Irish affairs. Terry Golway's suspenseful and assiduously researched biography of Devoy chronicles a lifetime of activism, in which he garnered tremendous financial and moral support within the United States for the cause in Ireland. Devoy was instrumental in both the Easter Rising of 1916 and the creation of the Irish Free State.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-357) and index.
Table of contents: title: A land beyond the waves; title: A most distressful country; title: A great hunger; title: Bold Fenian men; title: On the cause must go; title: Bound for western Australia; title: Fetters rent in twain; title: For Erin's sake; title: Hark, a voice like thunder; title: Pay them back, woe for woe; title: The ould triangle; title: Darkest just before dawn; title: Impatient for the coming fight; title: A flag of war; title: Yonder waits the Saxon foe; title: Passions vain and lowly; title: A nation once again; title: A soldier's song