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Irish-American nationalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

T.W. Moody
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During the four decades that followed the great famine, over three million people born in Ireland emigrated to the U.S.A. In the seventies and eighties these Irish-Americans and their descendants played a distinct role in Irish politics. The period was a critical era in the history of Ireland. It was marked by the beginnings of Gladstone’s ‘mission to pacify Ireland’ and of the home-rule movement under Butt; by the ‘land war’ of 1879–82, when the tenant farmers, under the leadership of Parnell and Davitt, offered a successful massresistance to the landlords; by the unchallenged ascendancy of Parnell and his party in national politics for the next eight years; and by the transformation of the conditions of the Anglo-Irish conflict through the conversion of Gladstone and the British liberal party to home rule.

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Irish Historical Studies , Volume 15 , Issue 60 , September 1967 , pp. 438 - 445
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Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 1967

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13 Irish World, 12 Feb. 1876; noted in Brown, p. 185.

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