Riotous Assemblies

William Sheehan

Language: English

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Publisher: Mercier Press

Description:

The chaotic history of riots and public disorder in Ireland since 1570. A collection of papers presented by historians at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick on riots and public violence across 16th, 17th 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st Century Ireland. Including:

  • The Dublin Parliamentary Elections 1613
  • Urban Riots and Popular Protest in Ireland, 1540 to 1640.
  • Riot at Cook Street, 1629
  • Recovering the freight of the Julia: Conflict on a Connemara Island
  • The political mobilisation of the Irish poor, 1851-1878
  • 'The Irish and the English criminal justice system in London
  • 'Conditioned Constitutionalists': The reaction of Fianna Fail grass-roots to the IRA Border Campaign, 1956 - 1962
  • 'Notorious Anarchists': The Irish Smallholder and the State during the Emergency (1939-45)
  • Government responses to gang violence in pre-Famine Munster. A Riot at Glenosheen, 1822
  • The Great Protestant Meeting: 19 December 1834
  • 'The one remarkable fact': Belfast,...