Irish Nationalists in America

Readers of scholarly books know that titles often begin with literary flair, and they look to what follows the colon for advice about the work's substance. Not so for David Brundage's Irish Nationalists in America. The important information precedes the punctuation. This is a study of Irish nationalists in America, not of Irish American nationalists (closer to the title—and topic—of Thomas N. Brown's well-known 1966 book Irish-American Nationalism, 1870–1890). He examines not the seekers of Irish American identity, community, and political effectiveness, but Irish nationalists who emigrated to, sojourned for greater or lesser periods in, visited, or, in some cases, were born in the United States. Some regarded themselves as American; others definitely did not. Brundage lays it out plainly: “This book provides a history of Irish nationalists in the United States from the 1790s to the 1990s, from the era of Wolfe Tone to that of Gerry Adams” (p. 2). Tone was an American sojourner of half a year, Adams only a visitor

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