The Fenian Movement by Walker, Mabel G - 1969

Ralph Myles Pub. Used - Good. Good condition. (Fenians, Irish Americans, Canada, history) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A.: Ralph Myles Pub, 1969. By A Customer This review is from: The Fenian Movement (Hardcover) The Fenian Movement is a sprightly account of one of the most unusual abd most neglected chapters in the history of American international politics. Written by a specialist in this area of the United States history, and heavvily documented, especially from contemporary newspaper sources, nevertheless it is presentedin a simple and readable style, with touches of quiet but charming wit. Mrs Walker deals fairly and openly with this very tangled development of the period of 1848-1871, when the affairs of the United States, England, Ireland and Canada became wonderously complicated, as a consequence of the ramification of Irish politics,. The efforts of Irish emigrants to America to launch an independence movement at home, and, when this failed , to seek to establish an independent revolutionary Irish state carved out of part of Canada, is the substance of this book. Woven into… Read More