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Irish Rebel : John Devoy and America's Fight for Ireland's Freedom by Terry Golway (2015, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherIrish Academic Press
ISBN-101785370251
ISBN-139781785370250
eBay Product ID (ePID)219620194
Product Key Features
Number of Pages360 Pages
Publication NameIrish Rebel : John Devoy and America's Fight for Ireland's Freedom
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
SubjectRevolutionary, Political, Europe / Ireland, Military
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorTerry Golway
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight16.5 Oz
Item Length8.8 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2015-509679
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal940.5081/092 B
SynopsisThis new revised edition of the acclaimed biography of this overlooked architect of the Irish independence movement is also the story of Ireland, and of Irish-America, from the Famine to Freedom, examining the extraordinary cloak-and-dagger planning of the Easter Rising and the critical role of America in its outcome., Described by Padraig Pearse as the "greatest of the Fenians," John Devoy was born before the Famine and lived to see the Irish tricolour flying from Dublin Castle. The descendent of a rebel family, he was an avowed Fenian who went into exile in New York in 1871. Over the next half-century he was the most-prominent leader of the Irish-American nationalist movement. Every Irish leader from Parnell to Pearse sought his counsel. He organised a dramatic rescue of Fenian prisoners from Australia, rallied Irish America behind the Land War, served as a middle man between the Easter rebels and the German government, and helped move Irish-American opinion in favour of the Treaty. When he died in 1928, Devoy was accorded a state funeral and a hero's burial in Ireland. This new revised edition of the acclaimed biography of this overlooked architect of the Irish independence movement is also the story of Ireland, and of Irish-America, from the Famine to Freedom, examining the extraordinary cloak-and-dagger planning of the Easter Rising and the critical role of America in its outcome. "The Devoy story, in Terry Golway's hands, combines wide scholarship and adventure: it reads like a novel. Get a comfortable chair when you read this book: you won't be able to put it down." - Frank McCourt Subject: Biography, Irish-American History, Irish Studies, History], Described by Padraig Pearse as the "greatest of the Fenians", John Devoy was born before the Famine and lived to see the Irish tricolour flying from Dublin Castle. The descendent of a rebel family, he was an avowed Fenian who went into exile in New York in 1871. Over the next half-century he was the most-prominent leader of the Irish-American nationalist movement. Every Irish leader from Parnell to Pearse sought his counsel. He organised a dramatic rescue of Fenian prisoners from Australia, rallied Irish America behind the Land War, served as a middle man between the Easter rebels and the German government, and helped move Irish-American opinion in favour of the Treaty. When he died in 1928, Devoy was accorded a state funeral and a hero's burial in Ireland. This new revised edition of the acclaimed biography of this overlooked architect of the Irish independence movement is also the story of Ireland, and of Irish-America, from the Famine to Freedom, examining the extraordinary cloak-and-dagger planning of the Easter Rising and the critical role of America in its outcome.
LC Classification NumberDA954.G64 2015
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