Irish Rhode Islanders In The American Revolution

By Thomas Hamilton Murray

Book Overview

Behind Rhode Island's forts and greens stood men and women whose Irish names have faded from memory. Irish Rhode Islanders In The American Revolution restores their stories to the heart of Revolutionary War history. Blending narrative, documentation and careful research, Thomas Hamilton Murray traces the service of Irish American patriot soldiers, sailors and citizens across eighteenth century Rhode Island and the wider struggle for independence. A compact revolutionary war history book focused on one small colony's Irish community. Every name here meant something. Drawing on rolls of the colonial Rhode Island militia, town records and early family histories, this classic Irish American history book offers concise sketches and service notes that illuminate the Irish in American Revolution campaigns on land and sea. It is at once vivid Rhode Island local history and a practical genealogy research resource, valued by family historians seeking Irish American colonial history connections and by teachers choosing an engaging homeschool American history supplement. Readers interested in the American Revolution Rhode Island theatre, immigrant patriotism and the building of a new nation will find in these pages an indispensable Irish Rhode Islanders revolution book. First issued in the late nineteenth century, Murray's study is an early, meticulous attempt to record the Irish contribution to New England's fight for liberty and a touchstone for scholars of Irish American identity. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9353603161
• ISBN13: 9789353603168
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"