“Scarce a Battlefield from the North Pole to the South”

This chapter examines how Irish people in the United States, Ireland, and abroad interpreted Irish participation in the American Civil War. It argues that, thanks in part to extensive worldwide press coverage of the conflict, the war solidified the Irish sense of themselves as an international commu...

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Main Author: McMahon, Cian T.
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: University of North Carolina Press 2015
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North Pole
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469620107.003.0005
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spelling crunivncaropr:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469620107.003.0005 2024-06-09T07:48:26+00:00 “Scarce a Battlefield from the North Pole to the South” Irish Celts in the American Civil War, 1861–1865 McMahon, Cian T. 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469620107.003.0005 en eng University of North Carolina Press Global Dimensions of Irish Identity page 111-144 ISBN 9781469620107 9781469620121 book-chapter 2015 crunivncaropr https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469620107.003.0005 2024-05-14T13:13:06Z This chapter examines how Irish people in the United States, Ireland, and abroad interpreted Irish participation in the American Civil War. It argues that, thanks in part to extensive worldwide press coverage of the conflict, the war solidified the Irish sense of themselves as an international community. There were two aspects to this wartime global nationalism. The first was an ethnic solidarity, which portrayed Irish Celts as a race of universal soldiers whose storied reputation for bravery and honor had been earned on countless battlefields across time and space. The second side of Irish global nationalism portrayed the war as part of a transnational ideological struggle. Book Part North Pole UNC Press (The University of North Carolina) North Pole 111 144
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