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Includes bibliography.
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Florida Atlantic University
Date Issued
2018
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2018
Description
This thesis reappraises the significance of Alexander Martin Sullivan, the Irish
constitutional nationalist and owner-editor of the Nation, by examining his role in
carrying Young Ireland’s moderate nationalist program through the lull in popular
politics between the 1840s and 1870s. Sullivan has been routinely marginalized as an
important historical figure in post-Famine popular politics, yet his campaign of propping
up nationalist heroes and attempts at forming nationalist organizations, primarily through
the Nation, ultimately helped to revitalize nationalist politics. Although his efforts were
often threatened, and even thwarted at times, by James Stephens and other advanced
nationalists, Sullivan managed to preserve constitutional nationalism until the emergence
of Isaac Butt as leader of the home rule movement in the 1870s.
constitutional nationalist and owner-editor of the Nation, by examining his role in
carrying Young Ireland’s moderate nationalist program through the lull in popular
politics between the 1840s and 1870s. Sullivan has been routinely marginalized as an
important historical figure in post-Famine popular politics, yet his campaign of propping
up nationalist heroes and attempts at forming nationalist organizations, primarily through
the Nation, ultimately helped to revitalize nationalist politics. Although his efforts were
often threatened, and even thwarted at times, by James Stephens and other advanced
nationalists, Sullivan managed to preserve constitutional nationalism until the emergence
of Isaac Butt as leader of the home rule movement in the 1870s.
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Extent
130 p.
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Identifier
FA00005971
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Includes bibliography.
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2018.
FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Date Backup
2018
Date Created Backup
2018
Date Text
2018
Date Created (EDTF)
2018
Date Issued (EDTF)
2018
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FAU
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FA00005971
Organizations
Attributed name: Florida Atlantic University
Attributed name: Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Attributed name: Department of History
Person Preferred Name
Kenny, Douglas C.
author
Graduate College
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130 p.
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Ireland’s Faithful Servant: Alexander Martin Sullivan and Constitutional Nationalism in Post-Famine Ireland, 1855 – 1870
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2018
2018
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Fla.
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Florida Atlantic University Libraries
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Boca Raton, Fla.
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Digital Library
Title
Ireland’s Faithful Servant: Alexander Martin Sullivan and Constitutional Nationalism in Post-Famine Ireland, 1855 – 1870
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Ireland’s Faithful Servant: Alexander Martin Sullivan and Constitutional Nationalism in Post-Famine Ireland, 1855 – 1870