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Irish-American Terrorism and Anglo-American Relations, 1881-1885

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2010

Jonathan W. Gantt
Jonathan W. Gantt
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During the 1880s Irish terrorism posed significant difficulties for American international relations. State Department officials at home and abroad monitored and assessed the activities and ideologies of many radical groups throughout Europe, but few were more burdensome and frustrating than Irish-American dynamiters. Recurrent threats to life and property in the United Kingdom and allegations of ties to American institutions and citizens eventually prompted American diplomats to articulate an aversion to terrorism. State Department officials also faulted the British colonial system for creating an environment that nurtured violent resistance and for using counter-terrorist measures believed to be repressive and largely ineffective. The diplomatic complications created by Irish nationalists eventually gave way to a mutual Anglo-American ideological repulsion to terrorism.

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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , October 2006 , pp. 325 - 357
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2006

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