The Fenian Movement [Hardcover]

Mabel G. Walker (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Ralph Myles Pub; First Edition edition (June 1969)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879260041
• ISBN-13: 978-0879260040
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,271,806 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book For Those Interested In Irish History., October 25, 2003

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The Fenian Movement is a sprightly account of one of the most unusual abd most neglected chapters in the history of American international politics. Written by a specialist in this area of the United States history, and heavvily documented, especially from contemporary newspaper sources, nevertheless it is presentedin a simple and readable style, with touches of quiet but charming wit.

Mrs Walker deals fairly and openly with this very tangled development of the period of 1848-1871, when the affairs of the United States, England, Ireland and Canada became wonderously complicated, as a consequence of the ramification of Irish politics,.

The efforts of Irish emigrants to America to launch an independence movement at home, and, when this failed , to seek to establish an independent revolutionary Irish state carved out of part of Canada, is the substance of this book.

Woven into the story of the intensely invovled question which aggravated the policy makers of four countries for years is a throrough account relating the conflict between two separate factions within the Fenian membership. The quarrels over leadership finances, and general strategy, and personality conflicts which raged within the ranks of this spirited group of Irish revolutionaries, are described here for the first time.

Even more revealing is the substantial impact the Fenian activities had on domestic American politics., and particularly after the Civil War had additionally inflamed the temper of Americans toward England. The Fenian Movement is a useful addition to the sparse literature on an amazing episode.

MABEL GREGORY WALKER earned the Docotor of Philosophy degree at the State University of Ohio at Columbus, after considerable study at the University of Illinois at Champaign, and worked with such formidable historians as Arthur C. Cole, Clarence W. Alvord and Evans R. Greene. She now resides in Port Orange, Florida.