Irish Peasants: Violence and Political Unrest, 1780–1914

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Contents Editors and Contributors Acknowledgments Abbreviations General Introduction I The Tradition of Violence Introduction ix xi xiii 3 25 1. Taxation and Disaffection in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland David Dickson 37 2. Caravats and Shanavests: Whiteboyism and Faction Fighting in East Munster, 1802-11 Paul E. w: Roberts 64 3. Pastorini and Captain Rock: Millenarianism and Sectarianism in the Rockite Movement of 1821-4 James S. Donnelly, Jr. 102 II Land and Religion in Ulster Introduction 4. The Armagh Troubles, 1784-95 143 David W. Miller 155 5. The Agrarian Opposition in Ulster Politics, 1848-87 Paul Bew and Frank Wright 192 6. The Land Question and Elections in Ulster, 1868-86 Brian M. Walker 230 III Changing Lines of Cleavage and Cohesion Introduction 271 7. Land League Power: The Tralee Poor-Law Election of 1881 William L. Feingold 285 vii viii CONTENTS 8. A Marginal Figure: The Irish Rural Laborer John W. Boyle 311 9. Farmers, Traders, and Agricultural Politics in Pre-Independence Ireland Liam Kennedy 339 10. The Cleavage between Graziers and Peasants in the Land Struggle, 1890-1910 David s. Jones 374 The Unreaped Harvest Index 419 435 ...