John Mitchel
By: James Quinn.
Contributors: Historical Association of Ireland.
Series: Life and times. New series
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781906359157
Subjects: Mitchel, John, -- 1815-1875; Revolutionaries -- Ireland -- Biography; Ireland -- History -- Rising of 1848; Ireland -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Genres: Biography
Description: "John Mitchel became a leading contributor to the Nation newspaper and the most militant of the Young Irelanders." "The harshness of his views, especially his violent hatred of Britain and support for slavery, does much to explain Mitchel's neglect in recent decades. He was, however, one of the most powerful polemical journalists of the nineteenth century and a central figure in the revival of militant Irish nationalism. His portrayal of the famine as deliberate genocide became central to nationalist orthodoxy, and his hatred of British rule and contempt for parliamentary politics did much to inspire Fenianism." "This new biography attempts to discover the origins of Mitchel's views, to examine their influence, and to place his anglophobia in a more general critique of the age in which he lived."--Jacket.
Notes: "Published on behalf of the Historical Association of Ireland."

Includes bibliographical references [101]-103) and index.