Introduction; 1. End of insurrection? Ireland and the post-1848 revolutionary world; 2. The Skirmishing Fund; 3. Science and skirmishing; 4. The dynamiters and their supporters; 5. Bridget and the bomb: violence, Irishness and gender; 6. Skirmishing, the land question, revolutionary labour; 7. Skirmishing stops; Bibliography.
A transnational history of the first urban bombing campaign, when Irish nationalists targeted symbolic British public buildings in the 1880s.
Niall Whelehan is a Research Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh.
'The Dynamiters is an important and spirited contribution to the
history of Irish nationalism, particularly in its American and
European extensions. By placing Irish history firmly 'in the wider
world', Whelehan has broadened our understanding of Ireland's
global history.' David Fitzpatrick, Irish Times
'This is an interesting, significant study with important
implications for the histories of late nineteenth-century Irish
America and Ireland, of transatlantic radicalism and political
culture, and of what is now called asymmetrical warfare or,
pejoratively, terrorism.' Kerby Miller, Journal of American
History
'Whelehan provides a truly global study of some élan that draws
upon a very wide range of archive sources and newspapers.' Donald
MacRaild, Immigrants and Minorities
'This is an excellent book, throwing light on an important and
much-neglected passage of Irish and indeed American history.' Colin
Barr, Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies
'This ambitious and thought-provoking book deserves a wide
readership. It offers a complex and rich transnational picture of
this critical phase in Irish nationalism. It will be of interest
not only to historians of modern Ireland and Irish America but
also, more generally, to those who study ethnic identity politics
and the evolution of political violence.' David A. Campion, The
Journal of Modern History
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