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John Allen and the Long Revolution of Irish Republicanism, 1780-1855

by Barry John Boland
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798235658257
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Silverback Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Silverback Books
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 286
  • Original Price: GBP 14.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 332 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Ireland

John Allen and the Long Revolution of Irish Republicanism, 1780-1855


Born in the artisan Liberties of Dublin around 1780, John Allen grew up in a household saturated with the radical politics of the United Irishmen, his father a dyer and republican organiser in Pimlico. Arrested at Margate in 1798 while carrying a secret diplomatic mission to revolutionary France, Allen was acquitted at the Maidstone treason trial through the extraordinary solidarity of Father James Coigly, who chose execution over betrayal. Returning to Dublin, Allen became one of Robert Emmet's most trusted lieutenants in the doomed insurrection of July 1803, commanding a rebel column of three hundred men before the rising collapsed in confusion and violence. Escaping with a price of 300 on his head, he reached France and joined Napoleon's Irish Legion, the exile force created to liberate Ireland through French military power. Over a decade of distinguished Napoleonic service, Allen rose from sous-lieutenant to chef-de-bataillon, earning the Legion of Honour for leading a forlorn hope assault at the siege of Astorga in 1810. Surviving capture, the catastrophic Bober River disaster of 1813, and the post-Waterloo extradition crisis, he spent four decades in French retirement, secretly returning to Ireland in the 1840s to bring his elderly sisters to Caen, where he died in 1855.

Boland, Barry John: -

Barry Boland is an Irish writer and historian based in Wexford, Ireland, whose work focuses on the intersection of Irish history, Atlantic world history, and the history of ideas. He brings to his writing a deep engagement with the stories of Irish men and women whose contributions to European and American intellectual and political life have been insufficiently recognised by the standard historical accounts. Drawing on his background in Irish history and his fascination with the transatlantic connections that shaped the modern world, Boland writes narrative nonfiction that combines rigorous historical research with the storytelling instincts of the best biographical tradition. His work is particularly concerned with the 1798 rebellion and its aftermath, with the experience of the Irish diaspora in the United States, and with the ways in which individual lives illuminate the broader currents of historical change. Shot and Left for Dead is his latest work, and reflects his conviction that the most important historical figures are often those who have been most thoroughly forgotten by the histories their achievements helped to make.

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