Product Description
A hardcover first edition, Chatto & Windus , 1971, of historian Leon Ó Broin's study of the translatlantic impact of the Fenian movement in the 1860's. He examines how the movement was influenced for former US civil war soldiers, how it infiltrated the British Army, the funding of the organization for the United States the abortive raid on Canada, and the way the events of the Manchester Martyrs in England influenced public opinion in Ireland the UK and the USA.
Illustrated, not ex library, there are closed tears to the edges of the jacket.