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David A. Wilson specializes in Modern Irish History and the Irish in North America. He is particularly interested in the transmission and transmutation of Irish political traditions throughout the Atlantic world.  His books include Paine and Cobbett: The Transatlantic Connection; Peter Porcupine in America: Pamphlets on Republicanism and Revolution; Ireland, a Bicycle and a Tin Whistle; United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic; The History of the Future; Ulster Presbyterians in the Atlantic World; and The Orange Order in Canada. He has recently published Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics 1825-57, and is currently working on the second volume, together with an edited work on Irish nationalism in Canada and a book on Canadian Fenianism.