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David Brundage is professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of Irish nationalists in America: the politics of exile, 1798–1998 (Oxford University Press, 2016). His current book project is entitled New York against empire: challenging British colonialism in a time of war and revolution, 1910–1927.