This text traces the rise of the nationalist movement in turn-of-the-century Ireland, the gaps and incoherences of the nationalist tradition and its subsequent re-invention. The author pays particular attention to the activities of the various separatist societies grouped grouped under the title Sinn Fein, parliamentary dissidents such as William O'Brien and the mainstream parliamentary party under John Redmond. In the process, he traces the silent rise of Sinn Fein which led to its spectacular victory in the 1918 election.
- ISBN10 0312225490
- ISBN13 9780312225490
- Publish Date 12 February 2000 (first published 30 April 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 March 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave MacMillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 340
- Language English