Fenian Empire

Patrick J. Mahoney, or Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna, is a Government of Ireland postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Irish Studies at the University of Galway. A former Fulbright scholar, his previous publications include Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail.

"The Fenian Empire strikes at the homogeneity of Fenian associationalism and rhetoric and elaborates on its many contradictions and complexities in the United States and across the western hemisphere. Teeming with individual Fenians, splits, spies, and swagger, it is a captivating read contending with ideas which are at once both historical and contemporary." - Úna Ní Bhroiméil, author of Building Irish Identity in America 1870-1915 "The Fenian Empire presents a fascinating and original study of the complex and often contradictory exchanges between Fenianism and a range of groups, including Latin American nationalists, Black American activists, ex-Confederates and Indigenous groups. Meticulously-researched in unfamiliar archives and sources, Patrick J. Mahoney's innovative book opens up important new vistas on the history of global Irish nationalism and expands debates about the Irish diaspora and colonialism in the nineteenth century." - Niall Whelehan, University of Strathclyde "This is an exceptionally broad and multifaceted study of the Fenian movement in the Western Hemisphere. The overall quality of the work is quite exceptional. It engages and illuminates aspects of Fenianism, which I've never seen addressed in any other work. The Fenian Empire will be regarded as a significant contribution to the study of Fenianism and, more broadly, of the Irish in mid-19th-century America." - Kerby Miller, author of Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America