Carrick-a-Rede Bridge, County Antrim  

 

 

Professor of History
Caspersen Graduate School

 

 

Carrick-a-Rede Bridge, Co. Antrim.

 
 
 

PUBLICATIONS

 

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Repeal and Revolution.
1848 in Ireland

(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009)

 

This book examines the events that led up to the 1848 rising and examines the reasons for its failure. It places the rising in the context of political changes outside Ireland, especially the links between the Irish nationalists and radicals and republicans in Britain, France and north America. The book concludes that far from being foolish or pathetic, the men and women who led and supported the 1848 rising in Ireland were remarkable, both individually and collectively. This book argues that despite the failure of the July rising in Ireland, the events that let to it and followed played a crucial part in the development of modern Irish nationalism.