Wolfhounds of Irish-American Nationalism

Seán Creagh was born in County Monaghan in 1977. He attended Our Lady’s Secondary School in Castleblayney and later on Dundalk Institute of Technology. After moving to the U.S and developing an intense interest in Irish American history he attended Northeastern Illinois University where he achieved an Honors Degree in History as well as Honors in Education. Today he is a middle school Social Studies teacher in Illinois.

• Contents: Revolutionary Origins – The Birth of Clan na Gael – 1870s – Phoenix Rising – The New Departure – From Politics to the Bomb – The Case of Dr Cronin – Domestic Rebuilding and Global Anti-Imperialism –The Road to Insurrection – Woodrow Wilson, Clan na Gael and the Election of 1912 – The Drumbeat of War – 1912–1914 – Clan na Gael and Imperial Germany – The Opening Round – Aftermath of the Easter Rising in the U.S. – Clan na Gael as a Global Revolutionary Model after 1916 – A Struggle on Two Fronts, 1917–1918 – Political Situation in Ireland, 1916–1919 – Revival of Clan na Gael and Friends of Irish Freedom – Eamon De Valera and Irish-America – De Valera and Clan na Gael – A Divide Too Great – the Split of 1920 – Clan na Gael and the Irish Civil War – The Decline of Clan na Gael during the 1920s – Rebuilding the Clan – The 1930s – WW2, the Nazi Connection and the S-Plan – 1945–1968 – Political Wilderness – Clan na Gael and the Northern Ireland Conflict.