The Cato Street conspiracy : plotting, counter-intelligence and the revolutionary tradition in Britain and Ireland / edited by Jason McElligott and Martin Conboy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McElligott, Jason, 1972- editor.

Conboy, Martin, editor.

Series:

Manchester scholarship online.

Manchester scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 197 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Summary:

If the Cato Street Conspiracy had been successful, Britain would have been proclaimed a republic by tradesmen of English, Scots, Irish and black Jamaican backgrounds. This book explains the conspiracy, and why you have never heard of it.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Abbreviations

Introduction We only have to be lucky once

1 When did they know? The cabinet, informers and Cato Street

2 Joining up the dots

3 The men they couldnt hang

4 Cato Street in international perspective

5 Cato Street and the Caribbean

6 Cato Street and the Spencean politics of transnational insurrection

7 State witnesses and spies in Irish political trials, 17941803

8 The shadow of the Pikeman

9 The fate of the transported Cato Street conspirators

10 Scripted by whom?

Afterword

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 31, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526145000

1526145006

9781526150547

1526150549

9781526144997

1526144999

OCLC:

1132215374