The Secular and the Radical in Irish Associational Culture of Mid-Victorian Glasgow

摘要: It will be argued in this article that, engaging with a diasporic network centred on the Dublin-centred National Brotherhood of St Patrick, more public and confident Irish Catholic leadership emerged Glasgow during 1860s. The self-improving reading room culture that was at pains to provide for also, however, proved attractive Irish-Scots workers gave them important formal associational experience. When local hierarchy portrayed as secret society nationalism disguise, leading worthies reacted by publicly associating themselves militant nationalists expressions an Irishness both secular and, times, radical.