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Faith in fraternity: new perspectives on the Irish Republican Brotherhood*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Matthew Kelly
Matthew Kelly*
Affiliation:
History Department, School of Humanities, University of Southampton
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Irish Historical Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 139 , May 2007 , pp. 380 - 384
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Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 2007

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Footnotes

*

The I.R.B.: The Irish Republican Brotherhood From the Land League to Sinn Féin. By Owen McGee. Pp 384, illus. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2005. €55 hardback; €29.95 paperback.

Harry Boland’s Irish Revolution. By David Fitzpatrick. Pp xi, 450, illus. Cork: Cork University Press. 2003. €39.

References

1 Broin, Leon Ó, Revolutionary underground: the story of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, 1858–1924 (Dublin, 1976)Google Scholar.

2 For example, Ó Broin’s influence is felt in R. F. Foster ’s account of the ‘armchair Fenians’ and their associates: see Foster, R.F., ‘Thinking from hand to mouth: Anglo-Irish literature, Gaelic nationalism and Irish politics in the 1890s’ in Paddy, and Punch, Mr: connections in Irish and English history (London, 1993), pp 262-80Google Scholar.

3 Comerford, R.V., The Fenians in context: Irish politics and society, 1848–82 (Dublin, 1985), p. 249 Google Scholar.

4 Idem, ‘Patriotism as pastime: the appeal of Fenianism in the mid-1860s’ in I.H.S., xxii, no. 87 (Mar. 1981), pp 239-50Google Scholar; see idem, ‘Comprehending the Fenians’ in Saothar, xvii (1992), pp 46–56 Google Scholar, for the debate between John Newsinger and Comerford.

5 Tom Garvin’s suggestive Nationalist revolutionaries in Ireland, 1858–1928 (Oxford, 1987) is a notable exceptionGoogle Scholar.

6 Comerford, Fenians in context, p. 243.

7 McGee, I.R.B., p. 39.

8 Ibid., p. 59.

9 Ibid., p. 116.

10 Ibid., p. 135.

11 Fitzpatrick, Harry Boland’s Irish Revolution, p. vii.