Crowds in Ireland, c. 1720-1920 / edited by Peter Jupp and Eoin Magennis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jupp, Peter.

Magennis, Eoin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crowds--Ireland--History.

Crowds.

History.

Ireland--Social conditions.

Ireland.

Social conditions.

Ireland--History--1691-.

Physical Description:

xii, 277 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Crowds in Ireland, c. 1720-1920 / Peter Jupp, Eoin Magennis 1

Part I Crowd Activity Arising from Negotiation between Different Social Classes

2 Whiskey, Potatoes and Paddies: Volunteering and the Construction of the Irish Nation in Northwest Ulster, 1778-1782 / Breandan Mac Suibhne 45

3 'The Invincible Mass': Loyal Crowds in Mid Ulster, 1795-96 / Allan Blackstock 83

Part II Varieties of Crowd Action

4 'A Large Mob, Calling Themselves Freemasons': Masonic Parades in Ulster / Petri Mirala 117

5 'Of One Mind?': O'Connellite Crowds in the 1830s and 1840s / Maura Cronin 139

6 Varieties of Crowd Activity from Fenianism to the Land War, 1867-79 / Clare Murphy 173

Part III Single-issue Crowd Protest

7 In Search of the 'Moral Economy': Food Scarcity in 1756-57 and the Crowd / Eoin Magennis 189

8 Crowd Activity during the Irish Land War, 1879-90 / Stephen Ball 212

9 Crowds and the Labour Movement in the Southwest, 1914-23 / Tom Crean 249.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0333789903

OCLC:

44026405