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United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic

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A number of the thousands of political refugees who flooded into the US all through the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, none had a greater have an effect on on the early republic than the United Irishmen. They were, according to one Federalist, “the most God-provoking Democrats on this side of Hell.” “Each and every United Irishman,” insisted another, “ought to be hunted from the country, as much as a wolf or a tyger.” David A. Wilson’s energetic book is the first to focal point specifically on the experiences, attitudes, and ideas of the United Irishmen in the US.Wilson argues that The united states 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 A number of 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 used to be preparing the way for the millennium in The united states. Convinced that the example of The united states could in the end inspire the movement for a democratic republic back home, they never lost sight of the struggle for Irish independence. It used to be the United Irishmen, writes Wilson, who originated the persistent and powerful tradition of Irish-American nationalism.

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