Irish nationalists and the making of the Irish race / Bruce Nelson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-322) and index.

Prologue: Arguing about (the Irish) race -- "The blood of an Irishman": the English construction of the Irish race, 1534-1801 -- Celts, hottentots, and "white chimpanzees": the racialization of the Irish in the nineteenth century -- "Come out of such a land, you Irishmen": Daniel O'Connell, American slavery, and the making of the Irish race -- "The black O'Connell of the United States": Frederick Douglass and Ireland -- "From the cabins of Connemara to the Kraals of Kaffirland": Irish nationalists, the British Empire, and the "Boer fight for freedom" -- "Because we are white men": Erskine Childers, Jan Christian Smuts, and the Irish quest for self-government, 1899-1922 -- Negro Sinn F{u2969}ners and black Fenians: "heroic Ireland" and the black nationalist imagination -- "The Irish are for freedom everywhere": Eamon de Valera, the Irish Patriotic Strike, and the "last white nation, deprived of its liberty".