Drawing on personal letters, published memoirs, and court martial records, this article investigates the gendered and ethnic implications of the Battle of the Windmill in November 1838. While this invasion of Upper Canada by the Hunter Patriots has often been seen as the final chapter of the 1837 Canadian Rebellions, it was also an episode imbued with Irish fraternal societies, Irish politics, notions of Irish manliness, and the attempts of Irish settlers to earn their place within “respectable” Upper Canadian society. The scandalous castration of an Irish officer and the mistreatment of dead soldiers’ bodies stood in direct contrast to the value each force placed on heroic martial manliness. Despite the relatively small size of the battlef...
This thesis explores the ways in which the Irish-Catholic population of Canada was perceived and de...
Historical consciousness in Saint John, New Brunswick, at present is fragmented. From the 1880s unti...
This article focuses on the nationalist side in revolutionary Ireland (1912–23), examining concepts ...
Drawing on interpretations and reactions to the violence of the 1824 Ballygiblin riot in the Bathurs...
The Rebellions of 1837 and subsequent border raids by American sympathizers prompted colonial offici...
Throughout the nineteenth century, Canada regularly received Irish immigrants who became a tolerated...
After the outbreak of the Seven Years War in 1755, anti-Indian violence exploded across the colonial...
The article attempts to discover and characterize the causes and preconditions of the Quebec Easter ...
On June 1, 1866, one thousand heavily-armed Irish-American Fenian insurgents invaded Upper Canada ac...
This study examines the creation and development of Irish Nationalisms in the post-Famine period, fo...
In the summer of 1866, members of the Fenian Brotherhood—an Irish American nationalist organization—...
Historians of Southwestern United States history and culture have created the concept of a borderlan...
This dissertation examines Irish Catholic diasporic communities in the early- to mid-nineteenth cent...
This article surveys the history of the American social and political reaction to the events surroun...
This dissertation examines the role of Roman Catholicism in the process by which Irish Catholics int...
This thesis explores the ways in which the Irish-Catholic population of Canada was perceived and de...
Historical consciousness in Saint John, New Brunswick, at present is fragmented. From the 1880s unti...
This article focuses on the nationalist side in revolutionary Ireland (1912–23), examining concepts ...
Drawing on interpretations and reactions to the violence of the 1824 Ballygiblin riot in the Bathurs...
The Rebellions of 1837 and subsequent border raids by American sympathizers prompted colonial offici...
Throughout the nineteenth century, Canada regularly received Irish immigrants who became a tolerated...
After the outbreak of the Seven Years War in 1755, anti-Indian violence exploded across the colonial...
The article attempts to discover and characterize the causes and preconditions of the Quebec Easter ...
On June 1, 1866, one thousand heavily-armed Irish-American Fenian insurgents invaded Upper Canada ac...
This study examines the creation and development of Irish Nationalisms in the post-Famine period, fo...
In the summer of 1866, members of the Fenian Brotherhood—an Irish American nationalist organization—...
Historians of Southwestern United States history and culture have created the concept of a borderlan...
This dissertation examines Irish Catholic diasporic communities in the early- to mid-nineteenth cent...
This article surveys the history of the American social and political reaction to the events surroun...
This dissertation examines the role of Roman Catholicism in the process by which Irish Catholics int...
This thesis explores the ways in which the Irish-Catholic population of Canada was perceived and de...
Historical consciousness in Saint John, New Brunswick, at present is fragmented. From the 1880s unti...
This article focuses on the nationalist side in revolutionary Ireland (1912–23), examining concepts ...