Irish-American Diaspora Nationalism: The Friends of Irish Freedom, 1916-35 - Hardcover

Doorley, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851828303 ISBN 13: 9781851828302

Publisher: Four Courts Press Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

The Friends of Irish Freedom has been described as one of the most effective propaganda machines in Irish-American history. The author describes the factors that led to the establishment of the Friends and those that coloured its nationalist outlook. He examines the motives behind the Friends' campaign to prevent American entry into the First World War on Britain's side. One might have expected a close working relationship, based on mutual self-interest, between the Friends and the main nationalist organization in Ireland, Sinn F in. Yet significant divisions soon emerged between both organizations and an explanation for this feud forms the core of this work; it reached such a pass that Bishop Michael Gallagher, the president of the Friends, denounced de Valera as a 'foreign potentate'.

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Synopsis:

Revising his Ph.D. dissertation for the University of Illinois-Chicago, Doorley (history and politics, Open U., Dublin and American College, Dublin) examines the Friends of Irish Freedom as one of the organizations of Irish-Americans promoting Irish nationalism from the Easter Rising to the establishment of the Irish Republic. He looks at it in the

About this edition

• Publisher: Four Courts Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1851828303
• ISBN 13: 9781851828302
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240