Irish Rebel: John Devoy & America's Fight for Ireland's Freedom - Softcover

Golway, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785370251 ISBN 13: 9781785370250

Publisher: Merrion Press, 2015

Synopsis

Described by Padraig Pearse as the "greatest of the Fenians" , John Devoy was born before the Famine and lived to see the Irish tricolour flying from Dublin Castle. The descendent of a rebel family, he was an avowed Fenian who went into exile in New York in 1871. Over the next half-century he was the most-prominent leader of the Irish-American nationalist movement. Every Irish leader from Parnell to Pearse sought his counsel. He organised a dramatic rescue of Fenian prisoners from Australia, rallied Irish America behind the Land War, served as a middle man between the Easter rebels and the German government, and helped move Irish-American opinion in favour of the Treaty. When he died in 1928, Devoy was accorded a state funeral and a hero's burial in Ireland. This new revised edition of the acclaimed biography of this overlooked architect of the Irish independence movement is also the story of Ireland, and of Irish-America, from the Famine to Freedom, examining the extraordinary cloak-and-dagger planning of the Easter Rising and the critical role of America in its outcome. "The Devoy story, in Terry Golway's hands, combines wide scholarship and adventure: it reads like a novel. Get a comfortable chair when you read this book: you won't be able to put it down." - Frank McCourt [Subject: Biography, Irish-American History, Irish Studies, History]

About this title

From the Publisher:

"The Devoy story, in Terry Golway's hands, combines wide scholarship and adventure: it reads like a novel. Get a comfortable chair when you read this book: you won't be able to put it down." --Frank McCourt

"Terry Golway has produced a well-researched biography of a man whose life has hitherto been given too little attention." --David Murray, The New York Times Book Review

"Terry Golway tells the story of this exceptional man with affection and a deft narrative sense. In an era of publishing in which America is rediscovering its Irishness, this book will charm and enlighten readers." --Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's List

About the Author:

Terry Golway is an editor and writer at The New York Observer and is a contributor to America and other national publication. He resides in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his wife and children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Merrion Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1785370251
• ISBN 13: 9781785370250
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360