Riotous Assemblies: Riots, Rebels and Revolts in Ireland - Softcover

William Sheehan

9781856356534: Riotous Assemblies: Riots, Rebels and Revolts in Ireland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856356531 ISBN 13: 9781856356534

Publisher: The Mercier Press Ltd, 2011

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, August, 1969. * The 1830's Tithe Slaughters * The Tactical Repertoire of the Whitefeet Movement * 'A Centre of Turbulence and Rioting': Limerick between the Easter Rising and the Conscription Crisis

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About the Author:

William Sheehan is a lecturer in history at NUI Maynooth and an associate lecturer with the Open University. He is the author of 'British Voices from the Irish War of Independence 1918-1920' (2007) and 'Hearts and Mines: The British 5th Division, Ireland, 1920-1922'. Maura Cronin is Senior Lecturer in History at Mary Immaculate College Limerick. Her publications include Country, Class or Craft (Cork University Press) and Agrarian Protest 1750-1950 (Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, 2010).

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