Ramón, Marta (2009) Book Review: Michael Davitt: from the Gaelic American. By John Devoy. Edited by Carla King and W. J. McCormack. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 2008. Irish Historical Studies, 36 (143). pp. 459-460. ISSN 0021-1214
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Abstract
Carla King and W. J. McCormack's latest contribution to U.C.D. Press's series, Classics
of Irish History, is a much-needed and highly interesting edition of John Devoy's series of
articles about Michael Davitt and the 'new departure', originally published in the Gaelic
American immediately after Davitt's death, and running from 16 June to 3 November 1906.
Devoy's seventeen articles have been supplemented with a critical introduction, Devoy's
own obituary of Davitt published in the same newspaper on 9 June, and a series of editorial
footnotes that, despite occasional errors (such as the statement that John Boyle O'Reilly
escaped from Australia in the Catalpa (p. 157)), will prove valuable to lay readers and
non-specialists in the period. Perhaps the footnotes' most useful features are the brief but
numerous biographical profiles, and the editors' painstaking identification of almost every
nameless Fenian appearing in the narrative.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Michael Davitt; Gaelic American; John Devoy; Carla King; W. J. McCormack; University College Dublin Press; 2008; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > History |
| Item ID: | 20887 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1017/S002112140000568X |
| Depositing User: | IR Editor |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Dec 2025 15:37 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Irish Historical Studies |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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