Mahoney delivers a fresh take on the Fenian story, guiding readers through a world of clandestine meetings, personal networks, propaganda and long forgotten military operations. 🔗 buff.ly/b0hRVDy 📍St Mary's University College 🗓️ 5 August @patrickjmahone1.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social

160 years ago this summer, a group of Black American Civil War veterans gathered in New York's Washington Square Park to offer their services to the cause of Irish freedom - their story is recalled in my 'From the Square' blog for @nyupress.bsky.social nyupress.org/blog/2026/07...

Forgotten Black Fenians – New Research Reveals Post-Civil War Solidarity by Patrick J. Mahoney, author of The Fenian Empire - NYU Press

This summer marks 160 years since the Battle of Ridgeway, the definitive event of the Fenian raids on Canada. Fought on June 2, 1866, near Ridgeway, Ontario, it pitted hundreds... READ MORE

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In RTÉ Brainstorm, Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna (Patrick J. Mahoney), author of "The Fenian Empire," recovers the little-known history of Fenian solidarity with Cuba's 1868 revolution and its echoes in today's geopolitics

A short history of Irish Fenians and the Cuban revolution

When revolution swept Cuba in autumn 1868, Fenian leaders developed an intense interest in the island

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An Emigrant Nation: Ireland, America and the Irish Diaspora: You may enjoy watching/listening to this podcast w/ Kevin Kenny @iehs.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social You Tube (video): www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZTE.... Spotify audio: open.spotify.com/episode/3txq... ​Kevin

An Emigrant Nation: Ireland, America and the Irish Diaspora | Kevin Kenny

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Fenian Summer continues!☀️ Mo mhíle buíochas le Jim Carroll and the folks at @RTEBrainstorm for the opportunity to write a bit about the roots of Irish-Cuban solidarity

RTÉ Brainstorm@rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · 3w ago

A short history of Irish Fenians and the Cuban revolution. When revolution swept Cuba in autumn 1868, Fenian leaders developed an intense interest in the island, explains @patrickjmahone1.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

"The Fenian Empire" by Patrick J. Mahoney reframes the Fenian story as a web of alliances, ambitions, and collisions with race and colonialism across the Civil War-era Americas. Now available everywhere.

The Fenian Empire

A bold new exploration of Fenian revolutionary activity across the AmericasIn the aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fenian movement stood at a crossro...

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One week since The Fenian Empire hit US shelves! A massive thank you to everyone who has reached out, and to the brilliant series editors Kevin Kenny & Nicholas Wolf - and the entire @nyupress.bsky.social team for putting together a final product that really captures the spirit of the text.

Hot off the press! Patrick Mahoney's @patrickjmahone1.bsky.social new book Fenian Empire, available now: lnkd.in/eW3FFERw "Teeming with individual Fenians, splits, spies, and swagger, it is a captivating read contending with ideas which are at once both historical and contemporary." Ú Ní Bhroiméil

new edition of 19thc Irish-language stories about the American West! Ed/trans @patrickjmahone1.bsky.social

My new book, 'The Fenian Empire: A Hemispheric History of Irish Republican Nationalism' is now live in the NYU Press catalogue and due for release in early June, fittingly on the 160th anniversary of the first major Fenian raid on Canada nyupress.org/978147983258...

The Fenian Empire

A bold new exploration of Fenian revolutionary activity across the AmericasIn the aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fenian movement stood at a crossro...

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Honoured that the Enchanted Bay was named runner up for the 2025 Katharine Briggs Award tonight by the @folkloresociety.bsky.social - Fantastic to see this recognition go to a work of Irish folklore!

Táim ar bís le bheith ar ais i nDún Éideann don cheardlann seo - ag dúil go mór leis na páipéir uilig / Looking forward to what promises to be a great day of conversations on the Gaelic Atlantic !

Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh@pomuirch.bsky.social · 12mo ago

'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic' - a one-day, in-person workshop at the University of Edinburgh on 5 September. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More information 👇