The dynamiters Irish nationalism and political violence in the wider world, 1867-1900
In the 1880s a New York-based faction of militant Irish nationalists conducted the first urban bombing campaign in history, targeting symbolic public buildings in Britain with homemade bombs. This book investigates the people and ideas behind this spectacular new departure in revolutionary violence....
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. End of insurrection? Ireland and the post-1848 revolutionary world
- 2. The Skirmishing Fund
- 3. Science and skirmishing
- 4. The dynamiters and their supporters
- 5. Bridget and the bomb: violence, Irishness and gender
- 6. Skirmishing, the land question, revolutionary labour
- 7. Skirmishing stops