Irish Canadian Conflict and the Struggle for Irish Independence, 1912-1925

摘要

In the past decade scholarship on the Irish population of Canada has expanded in important new directions. Mark McGowan's The Waning of the Green and Donald Akenson's The Irish in Ontario have, for a long time, established the way in which many think about Irish Canadians and their place in British North American society. Throughout much of the 1990s their work formed a consensus: by the early-twentieth century Irish Canadians had become historically invisible, having both divested themselves of Irish identity and successfully integrated into English-Canadian society. However, it is now clear that despite their acculturation, Irish Canadians maintained a keen and noticeable engagement in Irish affairs, responding audibly to the revolutionary upheaval in Ireland between 1912 and 1923. Robert McLaughlin's Irish Canadian Conflict and the Struggle for Irish Independence is an important work that adds to our understanding of this transition.