America and the Making of an Independent Ireland

A History

America and the Making of an Independent Ireland
Francis M Carroll
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h229 x 152mm - 312pg
5 Jan 2021 US
9781479805655
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Examines how the Irish American community, the American public, and the American government played a crucial role in the making of a sovereign independent Ireland On Easter Day 1916, more than a thousand Irishmen stormed Dublin city center, seizing the General Post Office building and reading the Proclamation for an independent Irish Republic. The British declared martial law shortly afterward, and the rebellion was violently quashed by the military. In a ten-day period after the event, fourteen leaders of the uprising were executed by firing squad. In New York, news of the uprising spread quickly among the substantial Irish American population. Initially the media blamed German interference, but eventually news of British-propagated atrocities came to light, and Irish Americans were quick to respond. America and the Making of an Independent Ireland centres on the diplomatic relationship between Ireland and the United States at the time of Irish Independence and World War I. Beginning with the Rising of 1916, Francis M. Carroll chronicles how Irish Americans responded to the movement for Irish independence and pressuring the US government to intervene on the side of Ireland. Carroll' s in-depth analysis demonstrates that Irish Americans after World War I raised funds for the Dail Eireann government and for war relief, while shaping public opinion in favor of an independent nation. The book illustrates how the US government was the first power to extend diplomatic recognition to Ireland and welcome it into the international community. Overall, Carroll argues that the existence of the state of Ireland is owed to considerable effort and intervention by Irish Americans and the American public at large.
This is a much-needed and robust account of the role that the American government, polity and the public had in shaping an independent Ireland from 1916 to 1928. The complexities of the relationship between the nations is clearly outlined in a work that is highly readable and enjoyable. This body of scholarly work also offers readers an opportunity to admire and value Francis Carroll' s defining contribution to American-Irish diplomatic and political relations in the early twentieth century. -- Professor emeritus Bernadette Whelan. Member Royal Irish Academy, University of Limerick, Ireland A major contribution to the study of Irish nationalism, Carroll' s impressive and magisterial analysis of Irish and American relationships between 1916 and 1928 demonstrates that American diplomatic recognition of the Irish Free State was a major contribution to its standing by helping to establish its legitimacy after the Irish Civil War. -- Maureen Murphy, Professor Emerita of Teaching, Learning and Technology, Hofstra University Lucidly written and exhaustively researched, this is an abundantly readable and definitive study which confirms unequivocally the decisive role played by Irish American organizations in support of Ireland' s long aspired quest for national statehood. Francis Carroll' s study lends clarity to the occasionally contested date as to when in fact Ireland actually achieved sovereign independence. What this book makes clear is how international recognition of Ireland' s independent sovereign status was manifestly achieved under William Cosgrave' s government in 1928. -- Thomas E. Hachey, University Professor of History Emeritus, Boston College
Francis M. Carroll is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba and a Fellow of St. John' s College, where he taught history. He is author of a number of books on Irish history, including Money for Ireland: Finance, Diplomacy, Politics, The First Dail Eireann Loans, 1919-1936 and The American Commission on Irish Independence, 1919: The Diary, Correspondence and Report.
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ISBN-13: 9781479805655
Published: 5 Jan 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: New York University Press
Publisher: New York University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 312

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