Irish Nationalism In America Summary

After reading “Irish Nationalism in America: The politics of exile, 1798-1998” by David Brundage the topic that really interested me was the lack of voicing of stances from the Irish Americans on the American slavery ideals. Other than the major abolitionist Irish American Daniel O’Connell many of the Irish Americans were okay with slavery. But why were the Irish Americans approving of a people group being oppressed similarly to how they were treated in their home country? To help explain the Irish American stance against Daniel O’Connell viewpoints, we can look at the analysis that Angela F. Murphy made in “Daniel O'Connell and the ‘American Eagle’ in 1845: Slavery, Diplomacy, Nativism, and the Collapse of America's First Irish Nationalist Movement” which emphasizes how although the Irish Americans refused the proposal from O’ Connell “to join the abolitionists” they still supported his views on Irish Nationalism. Her thesis that Irish Americans supported Daniel O’Connell campaign for Irish Independence that they would overlook his call to
She focuses on the importance of how the spread of freedom for all men came from Europe and went to America. She does this by dividing chapter by the question and then answering these question with historical evidence. She states that because of the link between Ireland [Great Britain rule] and America because of immigration. She goes on the explain in later chapters that the Irish Americans in the south were more resilient and receptive to relating to men who lacked the right to vote and represent themselves because they themselves also lacked these rights in America because of oppression. This conflicts with other works because typically the Irish Americans in the south were okay with the southern slave