Gaelic American

Gaelic American

The Gaelic American was an Irish Catholic newspaper published in the United States that was, along with the "Irish Nation", owned by John Devoy. [Patrick Ford and His Search for America. James Paul Rodechko. p292. 1976. Ayer Publishing. ISBN:0405093543] [The Gaelic American. Michael O'Reilly. Published 1951. Gaelic American Pub. Co. ] A weekly publication of the Sinn Fein, it was amongst the foremost Irish ethnic newspapers till the Great Depression when its readership declined. It had at various times as its editor George Freeman and John Devoy. [An Irish-American Journalist and Catholicism: Patrick Ford of the Irish World. James P. Rodechko. Church History, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Dec., 1970), pp. 524-540] In its early years, the Paper collaborated extensively with the Indian nationalist organisations in Britain and the United States, most notably the India House in London and its sisters organisations in New York. It reprinted articles from the "Indian Sociologist" and the editor George Freeman was close associate of Shyamji Krishna Varma.Harvnb|Fischer-Tinē|2007|p=334] The paper in 1910s also developed close cooperation with Taraknath Das and its facillities were used for printing Das's nationalist polticial journal, "Free Hindustan".Harvnb|Fischer-Tinē|2007|p=335]

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*Harvard reference
Surname1 = Fischer-Tinē
Given1 = Harald
Year = 2007
Title = Indian Nationalism and the ‘world forces’: Transnational and diasporic dimensions of the Indian freedom movement on the eve of the First World War. Journal of Global History (2007) 2, pp. 325–344
URL =
Publisher = Cambridge University Press.
ID= ISSN: 1740-0228.

*Hibernians on the March: Irish America and Ethnic Patriotism in the Mid-Twentieth Century. Matthew O'Brien Éire-Ireland 40.1&2 (2005) 170-182.
*Propaganda, Censorship and Irish Neutrality in the Second World War. Robert Cole. Edinburgh University Press . 2006
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C04E3DB143EE433A2575AC1A9619C946996D6CF GAELIC-AMERICAN ASKS AID.; Wants Funds to Prevent Paper "Being Crushed"--List Under Inspection] .Jul 19, 1918.
*The Sinn Féin of India": Irish Nationalism and the Policing of Revolutionary Terrorism in Bengal. Michael Silvestri The Journal of British Studies, Vol. 39, No. 4. (Oct., 2000), pp. 454-486.


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