Social Science

Ireland’s Allies

Editorial: University College Dublin Press

ISBN: 9781910820131

Pub: 2024-06-06

During the Easter of 1916, in the middle of the war in Europe, a rebellion took place in Ireland that sowed the seeds for the establishment of an Irish state independent of Britain. A seminal event in Irish history - the equivalent of America’s 4th of July - the Easter Rising had significant implications for other imperial relationships. By invoking the spirit of her 2.3 million `exiled children in America’, the rebels in Dublin proclaimed a new republic, one of whose role models was the United States of America.This volume places the Rising in a trans-national and trans-Atlantic setting. In the process, this book expands our understanding of ethnic allegiances and the mechanics of revolutionary networks and diaspora nationalism.