Republican spirit and military science
The ‘Irish brigade’ and Irish-American nationalism in 1848
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9984130 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Belchem (University of Liverpool, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 113 |
| Pages | 44-64 |
| Publication date | 1994-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Irish Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1214 • E-ISSN: 2056-4139 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021121400018769 |
| OpenAlex | W2591383321 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 16 |
Little has been written of the optimism and excitement among Irish immigrants and other Americans during the revolutionary months of 1848, the European ‘springtime of the peoples’. Studies of Irish-American nationalism hasten over the mobilisation of funds and arms to register the impact of failure. The ignominious collapse of the Young Ireland rising in Widow McCormack’s cabbage patch was to compel Irish-Americans to reconstruct their identity, to redefine the ways and means of their nationalist project. Irish-American nationalism became self-enclosed and self-reliant, an attitude evinced in a pattern of ethnic associational culture extending from mutual improvement to terrorist planning. During the heady months of 1848, however, a different mood prevailed. Looking across the Atlantic to revolutionary Europe, Irish immigrants invoked an international republicanism in which America, their adopted homeland, held pride of place. By recalling their hosts to their revolutionary past, Irish-Americans challenged narrow isolationism — and ‘Know-Nothing’ prejudice — to gain substantial, if temporary, native support
Foreign policy · Homeland · Immigration · Irish · Irish nationalism · Isolationism · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Pride · Psychological nativism · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Law
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Chants Democratic
Erin's Daughters in America
The Elgin-Grey Papers, 1846-1852
The Attitudes of the New York Irish Toward State and National Affairs, 1848-1892
Fenians and Anglo-American Relations During Reconstruction
The Shuttle and the Cross
The Origins and Character of Irish-American Nationalism
Republicanism
Irish Temperance and US Anti-Slavery
Outsiders
The Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism
The British State and the Chartist Movement
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2016 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |