Transatlantic defiance: The militant Irish republican movement in America, 1923-45

This book examines the militant Irish republican movement in the United States from the final months of the Irish Civil War through to the Second World War. The narrative carefully and creatively intertwines the personalities, events and policies that shaped the activism during this period and shows the evolution of its inherently transnational nature.

Through a bottom-up historical analysis that incorporates an examination of more than eighty archival collections in the US, Ireland and Bri...