Under the Starry Flag: How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship By Lucy E. Salyer

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Just to a dull and extensive list of sources which only serve to bulk up the page count by 40% The constant need to shoehorn in quotes and see how hard I worked citations keep any narrative from developing and every decision made by people a century and a half ago is filtered through the authors modern eyes and judged on race and gender lines rather than merely presented as factual occurrences about which the readers could draw their own conclusions or if the egotistic author simply must include their precious thoughts and feelings a concluding essay could have been appended Interspersing feels everywhere degrades any value that the work might have had and reduces it to mere kindling or cage liner Even worse is the glaring blind spots that exist those things that deserve comment but draw none Example It is a presented as fact that Fenians sailed to Ireland with the intent to start a revolution Upon being arrested every man who didn t turn informer lied his ass off both in court and in public proclamations.

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Not so much a book as it is an unfocused thesis from a lower tier liberal arts college without any tenured history professors but with 17 full time grievance studies cultists of every imaginable stripe. Under the starry flagz lyrics The slim 224 pages are mind numbingly dense Every other line is interrupted with citation marks never leading to an interesting footnote denying that they had any such intention The lack of remark since she has no problem on commenting upon so many other things obviously means the author thinks lies in service to political ends are perfectly acceptable Finally the authors red diaper shows when in the epilogue she explicitly refers to the long march of history and individual rights trumping states rights outing the entire work as communist propaganda unworthy of serious consideration History The riveting story of forty Irish Americans who set off to fight for Irish independence only to be arrested by Queen Victoria s authorities and accused of treason a tale of idealism and justice with profound implications for future conceptions of citizenship and immigration In 1867 forty Irish American freedom fighters outfitted with guns and ammunition sailed to Ireland to join the effort to end British rule Yet they never got a chance to fight British authorities arrested them for treason as soon as they landed sparking an international conflict that dragged the United States and Britain to the brink of war Under the Starry Flag recounts this gripping legal saga a prelude to today s immigration battles The Fenians as the freedom fighters were called claimed American citizenship British authorities disagreed insisting that naturalized Irish Americans remained British subjects Following in the wake of the Civil War the Fenian crisis dramatized anew the idea of citizenship as an inalienable right as natural as freedom of speech and religion The captivating trial of these men illustrated the stakes of extending those rights to arrivals from far flung lands The case of the Fenians Lucy E Salyer shows led to landmark treaties and laws acknowledging the right of exit The U. Under the Starry flagnation S Congress passed the Expatriation Act of 1868 which guarantees the right to renounce one s citizenship in the same month it granted citizenship to former American slaves The small ruckus created by these impassioned Irish Americans provoked a human rights revolution that is not even now fully realized Placing Reconstruction era debates over citizenship within a global context Under the Starry Flag raises important questions about citizenship and immigration Under the Starry Flag How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship.