LEADER 03934nam 22006255 450 001 996247905103316 005 20221108060041.0 010 $a1-5017-1159-8 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501711596 035 $a(CKB)1000000000396699 035 $a(dli)HEB02222 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000084982 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11126193 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084982 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10022959 035 $a(PQKB)10347952 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5399939 035 $a(OCoLC)811410470 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse69331 035 $a(DE-B1597)503489 035 $a(OCoLC)1038483598 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501711596 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000003865561 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000396699 100 $a20190920d2011 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnited Irishmen, United States $eImmigrant Radicals in the Early Republic /$fDavid A. Wilson 210 1$aIthaca, NY :$cCornell University Press,$d[2011] 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (x, 223 p. )$cill. ; 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8014-7759-X 311 0 $a0-8014-3175-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [181]-212) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. A Green Bough --$tChapter 2. Hordes of Wild Irishmen --$tChapter 3. The Land of Liberty --$tChapter 4. Humbling the British Tyrant --$tChapter 5. Marching to Irish Music --$tChapter 6. Signs of the Times --$tChapter 7. No Excluded Class --$tChapter 8. The Cause of Ireland --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aAmong the thousands of political refugees who flooded into the United States during the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, none had a greater impact on the early republic than the United Irishmen. They were, according to one Federalist, "the most God-provoking Democrats on this side of Hell." "Every United Irishman," insisted another, "ought to be hunted from the country, as much as a wolf or a tyger." David A. Wilson's lively book is the first to focus specifically on the experiences, attitudes, and ideas of the United Irishmen in the United States. Wilson argues that America served a powerful symbolic and psychological function for the United Irishmen as a place of wish-fulfillment, where the broken dreams of the failed Irish revolution could be realized. The United Irishmen established themselves on the radical wing of the Republican Party, and contributed to Jefferson's "second American Revolution" of 1800; John Adams counted them among the "foreigners and degraded characters" whom he blamed for his defeat. After Jefferson's victory, the United Irishmen set out to destroy the Federalists and democratize the Republicans. Some of them believed that their work was preparing the way for the millennium in America. Convinced that the example of America could ultimately inspire the movement for a democratic republic back home, they never lost sight of the struggle for Irish independence. It was the United Irishmen, writes Wilson, who originated the persistent and powerful tradition of Irish-American nationalism. 410 0$aACLS Humanities E-Book. 606 $aRadicalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aIrish Americans$xPolitics and government 607 $aIreland$xPolitics and government$y1760-1820 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1783-1809 615 0$aRadicalism$xHistory 615 0$aIrish Americans$xPolitics and government. 676 $a973/.049162 700 $aWilson$b David A.$f1950-$0931339 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996247905103316 996 $aUnited Irishmen, United States$92389997 997 $aUNISA