Robert O’sullivan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4446211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert O’sullivan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | O’sullivan |
| SIGNATURE | O’SULLIVAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-6710-7139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Anti-Colonial Revolution and US Intervention: The Guerra de los Diez Años in Cuba and the Irish American Press, 1868–1878
Exceptionalism, Exclusion, and the American Revolution: Mathew Carey’s Vindiciae Hibernicae and an Alternative Founding Narrative
This article explores the symbolic use of the American revolution in Mathew Carey’s Vindiciae Hibernicae , a revisionist history of the Irish rebellion of 1641. Carey, an Irish-born Philadelphia publisher, declared throughout Vindiciae Hibernicae that Irish Catholics had a legitimate reason to rebel, because they had been subjected to a persecution by the British that surpassed any other example in world history. To reinforce this claim, Carey re…
Irish-American Anti-Imperialism in Patrick Ford’s The Criminal History of the British Empire
In 1881, Patrick Ford, the Irish-American nationalist editor of the New York Irish newspaper The Irish World and American Industrial Liberator , published The criminal history of the British empire , a collection of five letters that he had written to William Gladstone. In The criminal history , Ford constructed a comprehensive account of British imperial history, beginning with England’s conquest of Ireland, before detailing the colonization of …
Greece, Poland, and the Construction of American Irish Catholic Identity in the New York Truth Teller , 1820–1845
The Greek War of Independence (1821–1832) and the abortive November Uprising in Poland (1830–1831) were two major developments in nineteenth-century European history, and both became central to foundational narratives of European modernity. These events have, however, received scant attention by American immigration historians. Despite this neglect, both were integral to how the New York Truth Teller, the leading Irish Catholic newspaper in New Y…
The 1844 Philadelphia Bible Riots and the American Irish Catholic Press
This article analyses the development of an American Irish Catholic identity following the 1844 Philadelphia Nativist riots, as perpetuated in New York’s The Truth Teller, and the Boston Pilot. The journalists of these two papers espoused that Irish Catholics had experienced unimaginable horrors at the hands of the British state and the system of Protestant Ascendancy that Britain instituted. For them, the 1844 Nativist riots were a manifestation…
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The 1844 Philadelphia Bible Riots and the American Irish Catholic Press
This article analyses the development of an American Irish Catholic identity following the 1844 Philadelphia Nativist riots, as perpetuated in New York’s The Truth Teller, and the Boston Pilot. The journalists of these two papers espoused that Irish Catholics had experienced unimaginable horrors at the hands of the British state and the system of Protestant Ascendancy that Britain instituted. For them, the 1844 Nativist riots were a manifestation…
Greece, Poland, and the Construction of American Irish Catholic Identity in the New York Truth Teller , 1820–1845
The Greek War of Independence (1821–1832) and the abortive November Uprising in Poland (1830–1831) were two major developments in nineteenth-century European history, and both became central to foundational narratives of European modernity. These events have, however, received scant attention by American immigration historians. Despite this neglect, both were integral to how the New York Truth Teller, the leading Irish Catholic newspaper in New Y…
Irish-American Anti-Imperialism in Patrick Ford’s The Criminal History of the British Empire
In 1881, Patrick Ford, the Irish-American nationalist editor of the New York Irish newspaper The Irish World and American Industrial Liberator , published The criminal history of the British empire , a collection of five letters that he had written to William Gladstone. In The criminal history , Ford constructed a comprehensive account of British imperial history, beginning with England’s conquest of Ireland, before detailing the colonization of …
Exceptionalism, Exclusion, and the American Revolution: Mathew Carey’s Vindiciae Hibernicae and an Alternative Founding Narrative
This article explores the symbolic use of the American revolution in Mathew Carey’s Vindiciae Hibernicae , a revisionist history of the Irish rebellion of 1641. Carey, an Irish-born Philadelphia publisher, declared throughout Vindiciae Hibernicae that Irish Catholics had a legitimate reason to rebel, because they had been subjected to a persecution by the British that surpassed any other example in world history. To reinforce this claim, Carey re…
Anti-Colonial Revolution and US Intervention: The Guerra de los Diez Años in Cuba and the Irish American Press, 1868–1878
Irish (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Irish and British Studies (2 works)