Young Ireland

WINNER, Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize for Books on Irish-America, given by The American Conference for Irish Studies Follows a group of people exiled from Ireland after a failed rebellion and the role they had in the building of new nations and states This book is about the Young Irelanders, a group of Irish nationalists in the mid-nineteenth century, who were responsible for a failed rebellion in Ireland during the Great Famine, who once exiled from Ireland, came to play formative roles in the fl