America and the Making of an Independent Ireland: A History

America and the Making of an Independent Ireland: A History

by Francis M. Carroll
America and the Making of an Independent Ireland: A History

America and the Making of an Independent Ireland: A History

by Francis M. Carroll

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Overview

Examines how the Irish American community, the American public, and the American government played a crucial role in the making of a sovereign independent Ireland

On Easter Day 1916, more than a thousand Irishmen stormed Dublin city center, seizing the General Post Office building and reading the Proclamation for an independent Irish Republic. The British declared martial law shortly afterward, and the rebellion was violently quashed by the military. In a ten-day period after the event, fourteen leaders of the uprising were executed by firing squad.

In New York, news of the uprising spread quickly among the substantial Irish American population. Initially the media blamed German interference, but eventually news of British-propagated atrocities came to light, and Irish Americans were quick to respond.

America and the Making of an Independent Ireland centres on the diplomatic relationship between Ireland and the United States at the time of Irish Independence and World War I. Beginning with the Rising of 1916, Francis M. Carroll chronicles how Irish Americans responded to the movement for Irish independence and pressuring the US government to intervene on the side of Ireland. Carroll’s in-depth analysis demonstrates that Irish Americans after World War I raised funds for the Dáil Éireann government and for war relief, while shaping public opinion in favor of an independent nation. The book illustrates how the US government was the first power to extend diplomatic recognition to Ireland and welcome it into the international community.

Overall, Carroll argues that the existence of the state of Ireland is owed to considerable effort and intervention by Irish Americans and the American public at large.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781479805655
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 01/05/2021
Series: The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series , #1
Pages: 312
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Francis M. Carroll is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba and a Fellow of St. John’s College, where he taught history. He is author of a number of books on Irish history, including Money for Ireland: Finance, Diplomacy, Politics, The First Dáil Éireann Loans, 1919–1936 and The American Commission on Irish Independence, 1919: The Diary, Correspondence and Report.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations vii

Prologue: Changed, Changed Utterly ix

1 America and the Irish Rising of 1916 1

2 America, the War Crisis, and the Irish Problem, 1916-1918 13

3 The 1919 Paris Peace Conference, the American Commission on Irish Independence, and Self-Determination for Ireland 36

4 Money: The Sinews of War, 1919-1921 64

5 Ireland in the Eye of Public Opinion: The American Commission on Conditions in Ireland, 1920-1921 89

6 American Aid for Ireland, 1920-1922 111

7 The Emergence of the Irish Free State and American Diplomatic Recognition, 1921-1927 142

8 President William T. Cosgrave Comes to the United States, 1928 165

9 Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg Comes to Ireland, 1928 184

Epilogue: Ireland and America 199

Acknowledgments 203

Appendix 1 The Meeting of John Quinn's Delegation with A. J. Balfour on 4 May 1917 205

Appendix 2 Documents Submitted and Witnesses at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearings on the Treaty of Peace with Germany 213

Appendix 3 American Commission on Conditions on Ireland: Hearings and Witnesses before the Commission in Washington, DC 217

Appendix 4 Report on Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg's Visit to Dublin in August 1928 221

Notes 225

Bibliography 263

Index 277

About the Author 293

Illustrations follow page 81

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