David A. Wilson is Coordinator of the Celtic Studies Program and Professor of History at the University of Toronto. His most recent work is a two-volume biography of the Irish Canadian politician Thomas D’Arcy McGee.
This is an excellent book, important for the specialist and of
interest to the general reader... David Wilson has in this
well-organized volume made a substantial contribution to
transatlantic studies. It is the definitive work on the United
Irish in America.
*Canadian Journal of History*
It is an engagingly told story about the Irish nationalists who
came to America after the failure of their cause in Ireland.
*Letters in Canada*
United Irishmen, United States has much to offer scholars
interested in the pre-famine history of Irish America, late
eighteenth and early nineteenth century trans-Atlantic radicalism,
and the ethnic dimension of urban politics in the early republic.
Written in concise, crystalline prose, this modest book contains a
wealth of previously untold stories about the flamboyant and
fascinating Irish radicals who came to American in the late 1790s
and 1800s.... This book makes an important contribution to the
literature by eloquently narrating a largely overlooked chapter of
Irish-American history.... A rich, compelling analysis of the
complicated nature of Irish-American political life in the early
republic.
*H-Net Reviews*
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