David T Gleeson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1236652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David T Gleeson |
| GIVEN NAMES | David T |
| FAMILY NAME | Gleeson |
| SIGNATURE | GLEESON D T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1592-4201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism
Ian Delahanty. Embracing Emancipation
Irish American Civil War Songs
Reviewed by: Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood by Catherine V. Bateson David T. Gleeson (bio) Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood. By Catherine V. Bateson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2022. Pp. 320. Cloth, $45.00.) As the most "sung about group of any" in the Civil War (2), the Irish— specifically 150 ballads by or about the Irish during or after the Civil War— cons…
Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean
Irish Rebels, Southern Rebels
This chapter discusses the Irish experience in the Confederacy, highlighting the postwar influence of Irish Catholics on the “Lost Cause” and their success in placing their story into that myth. Around 20,000 served in the Confederate armed forces, not enough to have a major impact on the war. While specific Irish units did perform vital tactical tasks at certain times, apart from halting the Union invasion of East Texas—somewhat of a side theate…
Protecting the National Interest
This translation from French of Stève Sainlaude’s PhD dissertation, originally published in multiple volumes in France, is a very welcome addition to the diplomatic history of the U.S. Civil War. For too long, our focus has been on the United Kingdom’s relationship with both sides in the Civil War with the French story included as an afterthought. The textbook view was that while the French emperor, Louis Napoleon III, was sympathetic to the Conf…
Expelling the Poor
Hidetaka Hirota has written one of the most important recent books on the history of immigration to the United States. He breaks important new ground with his study but has also produced a work that, though focused on the nineteenth century, still speaks to current debates on immigration. He highlights more continuity in the story of immigration regulation than has been traditionally recognized. The book covers the Atlantic Seaboard states, the p…
Scotland and the Caribbean, c. 1740–1833
Blood runs green
Blood runs green: the murder that transfixed Gilded Age Chicago." Immigrants & Minorities, 34(3), pp. 318–319
Failing to ‘unite with the abolitionists’
Daniel O’Connell was an acknowledged leader of the anti-slavery movement in the 1830s and 1840s. To American abolitionists, he embodied an Irish opposition to slavery. Yet, many, such as Frederick Douglass, saw a contrast between the Irish in Ireland and those in America when it came to the issue of slavery. The Irish in America were among the most ardent opponents of abolitionism. An examination of some of the leading nationalist newspapers opin…
Free black communities and the underground railroad
Free black communities and the underground railroad: the geography of resistance." Slavery & Abolition, 37(2), pp. 487–488
A union forever
The Civil War as Global Conflict
In an attempt to counter the insular narratives of much of the sesquicentennial commemorations of the Civil War in the United States, editors David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis present this collection of essays that examine the war as more than a North American conflict, one with transnational concerns. The book, while addressing the origins of the Civil War, places the struggle over slavery and sovereignty in the United States in the context of ot…
Shifting Grounds
Invisible Diaspora? English Ethnicity in the United States before 1920
The article presents an examination into the English population of the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries, examining their ethnic identity as a diaspora community. Introductory details are given noting the relative lack of attention given to English Americans as an ethnic group. Topics addressed include reasons behind the invisibility of the English immigrant identity in the U.S., the existence of English ethnic organizations,…
Alison Clark Efford. German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era
In German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era, Alison Clark Efford provides an innovative examination of Germans' role in the defining and redefining of citizenship in the United States during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Focusing on three states with large German populations in the antebellum era—Ohio, Missouri, and Wisconsin—Efford describes how German immigrants formed a liberal nationalism in their search for their pla…
The Green and the Gray
"The Green and the Gray" published on by University of North Carolina Press.
A Nation of Immigrants
Beyond the American Pale
The noted historian of the Irish of Butte, Montana, David M. Emmons has provided an interpretive history of the Irish in the American West. He believes that Irish Catholics were beyond the American pale, both in a metaphorical sense, as people who did not fit into the dominant Protestant vision of America's West, and in an actual sense, that real barriers kept the Irish separate from the American mainstream. Thus, the Irish had to create an “alte…
Welfare and Charity in the Antebellum South
TIMOTHY JAMES LOCKLEY Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007 Pp. 304, $59.50 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 8130 3173 6 Traditionally scholars have ignored welfare and charity in the Old South, because
To live and die [for] Dixie’
Around 20,000 Irishmen served in the Confederate army in the Civil War. As a result, they left behind, in various Southern towns and cities, large numbers of friends, family, and community leaders. As with native-born Confederates, Irish civilian support was crucial to Irish participation in the Confederate military effort. Also, Irish civilians served in various supporting roles: in factories and hospitals, on railroads and diplomatic missions, …
Securing the “Interests” of the South
Traditionally scholars have downplayed the importance of southern calls to reopen the transatlantic slave trade in the 1850s. Those who have paid serious attention to this effort see it as another endeavor by aristocratic planters to enshrine their social, economic, and political power in the antebellum South. The advocates were, as one puts it, "no champions of the common white man." Two Irish-American leaders who supported the reopening, John M…
Irish Americans in the Confederate Army
Away Down South
Regional Identities \tUnderstanding the South \tJames C. Cobb has set for himself the monumental task of writing the history of identity in the South from the American Revolution to 2005, the year of publication of this work. Without getting bogged down in too much theory, Cobb defi....
We are Irish Everywhere’
In the nineteenth century, Irish immigrants in Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia, showed a strong interest in the affairs of Ireland and its residents. Although a distinct minority in these ‘southern’ cities, they formed networks through societies, clubs, militias and Irish nationalist organisations to encourage social activities and ethnic connections among their fellow countrymen and those friendly towards Irish interests. These…
Beyond the American Pale
The noted historian of the Irish of Butte, Montana, David M. Emmons has provided an interpretive history of the Irish in the American West. He believes that Irish Catholics were beyond the American pale, both in a metaphorical sense, as people who did not fit into the dominant Protestant vision of America's West, and in an actual sense, that real barriers kept the Irish separate from the American mainstream. Thus, the Irish had to create an “alte…
Expelling the Poor
Hidetaka Hirota has written one of the most important recent books on the history of immigration to the United States. He breaks important new ground with his study but has also produced a work that, though focused on the nineteenth century, still speaks to current debates on immigration. He highlights more continuity in the story of immigration regulation than has been traditionally recognized. The book covers the Atlantic Seaboard states, the p…
Failing to ‘unite with the abolitionists’
Daniel O’Connell was an acknowledged leader of the anti-slavery movement in the 1830s and 1840s. To American abolitionists, he embodied an Irish opposition to slavery. Yet, many, such as Frederick Douglass, saw a contrast between the Irish in Ireland and those in America when it came to the issue of slavery. The Irish in America were among the most ardent opponents of abolitionism. An examination of some of the leading nationalist newspapers opin…
To live and die [for] Dixie’
Around 20,000 Irishmen served in the Confederate army in the Civil War. As a result, they left behind, in various Southern towns and cities, large numbers of friends, family, and community leaders. As with native-born Confederates, Irish civilian support was crucial to Irish participation in the Confederate military effort. Also, Irish civilians served in various supporting roles: in factories and hospitals, on railroads and diplomatic missions, …
We are Irish Everywhere’
In the nineteenth century, Irish immigrants in Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia, showed a strong interest in the affairs of Ireland and its residents. Although a distinct minority in these ‘southern’ cities, they formed networks through societies, clubs, militias and Irish nationalist organisations to encourage social activities and ethnic connections among their fellow countrymen and those friendly towards Irish interests. These…
The Irish in the South, 1815-1877
The Irish in the South, 1815-1877
Insiders, outside
Book Review| April 01 2003 Insiders, outside: The Scots Irish and the English in America The People with No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764, Patrick Griffin.Accent on Privilege: English Identities and Anglophilia in the United States, Katherine W. Jones. David T. Gleeson David T. Gleeson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethni…
Land! Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas
Book Review| July 01 2004 Land! Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas Land! Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas, Graham Davis. David T. Gleeson David T. Gleeson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2004) 23 (4): 164–165. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501501 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David T. Glees…
We are Irish Everywhere’
In the nineteenth century, Irish immigrants in Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia, showed a strong interest in the affairs of Ireland and its residents. Although a distinct minority in these ‘southern’ cities, they formed networks through societies, clubs, militias and Irish nationalist organisations to encourage social activities and ethnic connections among their fellow countrymen and those friendly towards Irish interests. These…
Away Down South
Regional Identities \tUnderstanding the South \tJames C. Cobb has set for himself the monumental task of writing the history of identity in the South from the American Revolution to 2005, the year of publication of this work. Without getting bogged down in too much theory, Cobb defi....
Irish Americans in the Confederate Army
Welfare and Charity in the Antebellum South
TIMOTHY JAMES LOCKLEY Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007 Pp. 304, $59.50 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 8130 3173 6 Traditionally scholars have ignored welfare and charity in the Old South, because
To live and die [for] Dixie’
Around 20,000 Irishmen served in the Confederate army in the Civil War. As a result, they left behind, in various Southern towns and cities, large numbers of friends, family, and community leaders. As with native-born Confederates, Irish civilian support was crucial to Irish participation in the Confederate military effort. Also, Irish civilians served in various supporting roles: in factories and hospitals, on railroads and diplomatic missions, …
Securing the “Interests” of the South
Traditionally scholars have downplayed the importance of southern calls to reopen the transatlantic slave trade in the 1850s. Those who have paid serious attention to this effort see it as another endeavor by aristocratic planters to enshrine their social, economic, and political power in the antebellum South. The advocates were, as one puts it, "no champions of the common white man." Two Irish-American leaders who supported the reopening, John M…
Beyond the American Pale
The noted historian of the Irish of Butte, Montana, David M. Emmons has provided an interpretive history of the Irish in the American West. He believes that Irish Catholics were beyond the American pale, both in a metaphorical sense, as people who did not fit into the dominant Protestant vision of America's West, and in an actual sense, that real barriers kept the Irish separate from the American mainstream. Thus, the Irish had to create an “alte…
The Green and the Gray
"The Green and the Gray" published on by University of North Carolina Press.
A Nation of Immigrants
The Civil War as Global Conflict
In an attempt to counter the insular narratives of much of the sesquicentennial commemorations of the Civil War in the United States, editors David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis present this collection of essays that examine the war as more than a North American conflict, one with transnational concerns. The book, while addressing the origins of the Civil War, places the struggle over slavery and sovereignty in the United States in the context of ot…
Shifting Grounds
Invisible Diaspora? English Ethnicity in the United States before 1920
The article presents an examination into the English population of the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries, examining their ethnic identity as a diaspora community. Introductory details are given noting the relative lack of attention given to English Americans as an ethnic group. Topics addressed include reasons behind the invisibility of the English immigrant identity in the U.S., the existence of English ethnic organizations,…
Alison Clark Efford. German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era
In German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era, Alison Clark Efford provides an innovative examination of Germans' role in the defining and redefining of citizenship in the United States during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Focusing on three states with large German populations in the antebellum era—Ohio, Missouri, and Wisconsin—Efford describes how German immigrants formed a liberal nationalism in their search for their pla…
A union forever
Blood runs green
Blood runs green: the murder that transfixed Gilded Age Chicago." Immigrants & Minorities, 34(3), pp. 318–319
Failing to ‘unite with the abolitionists’
Daniel O’Connell was an acknowledged leader of the anti-slavery movement in the 1830s and 1840s. To American abolitionists, he embodied an Irish opposition to slavery. Yet, many, such as Frederick Douglass, saw a contrast between the Irish in Ireland and those in America when it came to the issue of slavery. The Irish in America were among the most ardent opponents of abolitionism. An examination of some of the leading nationalist newspapers opin…
Free black communities and the underground railroad
Free black communities and the underground railroad: the geography of resistance." Slavery & Abolition, 37(2), pp. 487–488
Scotland and the Caribbean, c. 1740–1833
Expelling the Poor
Hidetaka Hirota has written one of the most important recent books on the history of immigration to the United States. He breaks important new ground with his study but has also produced a work that, though focused on the nineteenth century, still speaks to current debates on immigration. He highlights more continuity in the story of immigration regulation than has been traditionally recognized. The book covers the Atlantic Seaboard states, the p…
Irish Rebels, Southern Rebels
This chapter discusses the Irish experience in the Confederacy, highlighting the postwar influence of Irish Catholics on the “Lost Cause” and their success in placing their story into that myth. Around 20,000 served in the Confederate armed forces, not enough to have a major impact on the war. While specific Irish units did perform vital tactical tasks at certain times, apart from halting the Union invasion of East Texas—somewhat of a side theate…
Protecting the National Interest
This translation from French of Stève Sainlaude’s PhD dissertation, originally published in multiple volumes in France, is a very welcome addition to the diplomatic history of the U.S. Civil War. For too long, our focus has been on the United Kingdom’s relationship with both sides in the Civil War with the French story included as an afterthought. The textbook view was that while the French emperor, Louis Napoleon III, was sympathetic to the Conf…
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