| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.5

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.5 | The History Cooperative

Susannah Ural Bruce. The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861–1865. New York: New York University Press. 2006. Pp. xiii, 309. Cloth $70.00, paper $22.00.
Growing acknowledgment of the transatlantic nature of the Irish in America and Ireland is the leitmotif of this well-documented and illuminating study of the Irish participation in the Union army during the American Civil War. The author shows us how events in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland influenced enlistment in the Union cause and how the Irish fared in the American army and society before, during, and after the American Civil War.	1
In her introduction, Susannah Ural Bruce tells us that service in the Union Army was inextricably linked to the cause of Irish independence in the hearts and minds of the men, often recent immigrants, who joined the Union's Irish brigades. Heroes of the great battles in the epic conflict between the states sought to put their American military training to good use later to set Ireland free from British rule.	. . .

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