The end of outrage : post-famine adjustment in rural Ireland /

The end of outrage : post-famine adjustment in rural Ireland /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Mac Suibhne, Breandán, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Description:	viii, 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Molly Maguires (Organization) Molly Maguires (Organization) Famine (Ireland : 1845-1852) Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852. Ireland -- History -- 1837-1901. Ireland. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11319331

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ISBN:	0198738617 9780198738619
Summary:	South-west Donegal, Ireland, June 1856. From the time that the blight first came on the potatoes in 1845, armed and masked men dubbed Molly Maguires had been raiding the houses of people deemed to be taking advantage of the rural poor. On some occasions, they represented themselves as 'Molly's Sons', sent by their mother, to carry out justice; on others, a man attired as a woman, introducing 'herself' as Molly Maguire, demanding redress for wrongs inflicted on her children. The raiders might stipulate the maximum price at which provisions were to be sold, warn against the eviction of tenants, or demand that an evicted family be reinstated to their holding. People who refused to meet their demands were often viciously beaten and, in some instances, killed-offences that the Constabulary classified as 'outrages'. Catholic clergymen regularly denounced the Mollies and in 1853, the district was proclaimed under the Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Act. Yet the 'outrages' continued. Then, in 1856, Patrick McGlynn, a young schoolmaster, suddenly turned informer on the Mollies, precipitating dozens of arrests. 0Here, a history of McGlynn's informing, backlit by episodes over the previous two decades, sheds light on that wave of outrage, its origins and outcomes, the meaning and the memory of it. More specifically, it illuminates the end of 'outrage'-the shifting objectives of those who engaged in it, and also how, after hunger faded and disease abated, tensions emerged in the Molly Maguires, when one element sought to curtail such activity, while another sought, unsuccessfully, to expand it. 0.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Prologue: The Era of Infidelity
Part I.
1. A Letter from Beagh
2. Bastard Ribbonism
Part II.
3. The Last Places Man Created
4. James Gallagher
Part III.
5. The Name of Informer
6. Judges and Appearances
7. The Judge between God and Man
8. Departures and Returns
Part IV.
9. The End of Outrage
10. Dangerous Memories
Epilogue
Appendix: Digital Resources
Select Bibliography
Index