A union forever [electronic resource] : the Irish question and U.S. foreign relations in the Victorian age / David Sim.
Sim, David, 1985-
2013
E183.8.I6 S56 2013eb
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Title A union forever [electronic resource] : the Irish question and U.S. foreign relations in the Victorian age / David Sim.
Author Sim, David, 1985-
ISBN 9780801451843 hardcover
9780801469688 electronic book
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number E183.8.I6 S56 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 327.730417/09034
Summary "In the mid-nineteenth century the Irish question--the governance of the island of Ireland--demanded attention on both sides of the Atlantic. In A Union Forever, David Sim examines how Irish nationalists and their American sympathizers attempted to convince legislators and statesmen to use the burgeoning global influence of the United States to achieve Irish independence. Simultaneously, he tracks how American politicians used the Irish question as means of furthering their own diplomatic and political ends. Combining an innovative transnational methodology with attention to the complexities of American statecraft, Sim rewrites the diplomatic history of this neglected topic. He considers the impact that nonstate actors had on formal affairs between the United States and Britain, finding that not only did Irish nationalists fail to involve the United States in their cause but actually fostered an Anglo-American rapprochement in the final third of the nineteenth century. Their failures led them to seek out new means of promoting Irish self-determination, including an altogether more radical, revolutionary strategy that would alter the course of Irish and British history over the next century"-- Publisher's Web site.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series United States in the world.
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Introduction : an Atlantic triangle
Challenging the union : American repeal and US diplomacy
Ireland is no longer a nation : the Irish famine and American diplomacy
Filibusters and Fenians : contesting neutrality
The Fenian Brotherhood, naturalisation, and expatriation : Irish-Americans and Anglo-American comity
Toward home rule : from the Fenians to Parnell's ascendancy
A search for order : the decline of the Irish question in American diplomacy
Epilogue : rapprochement, Paris, and a free state.

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