Riotous Assembly : Riots, Rebels and Revolts in Ireland

by Sheehan, William; Cronin, Maura

• ISBN13: 9781856356534
• ISBN10: 1856356531
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-15
• Publisher: Dufour Editions

Summary

A collection of papers presented by historians at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, on riots and public violence in Ireland from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Some of the events covered include the Dublin Parliamentary Elections of 1613, Riots in Limerick from 1820 to 1900, the 1830s Tithe Riots, and the IRA Border Campaign, 1956-1962.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 9
The Contributors	p. 10
Abbreviations	p. 15
Introduction	p. 17
Disorder and Commotion: Urban riots and popular protest in Ireland, 1570-1640	p. 22
The Dublin Parliamentary Elections, 1613	p. 50
'We are not yet safe, for they threaten us with more violence': A study of the Cook Street riot, 1629	p. 64
The 1830s Tithe Riots	p. 80
The Great Protestant Meeting of Dungannon, 1834	p. 96
Collective Action and the Poor Law: The political mobilisation of the Irish poor, 1851-78	p. 110
Recovering the Cargo of the Julia: Salvage, law and the killing of 'wreckers' in Conamara in 1873	p. 127
Riots in Limerick, 1820-1900	p. 153
A centre of turbulence and rioting': The republican movement in Limerick, 1917-18	p. 175
'Notorious Anarchists?': The Irish smallholder and the Irish state during the Emergency, 1939-45	p. 191
'Conditional Constitutionalists': The reaction of Fianna Fáil grass-roots to the IRA border campaign, 1956-62	p. 210
Belfast, August 1969: The limited and localised pattern(s) of violence	p. 228
When is an Assembly Riotous, and Who Decides?: The success and failure of police attempts to criminalise protest	p. 242
Notes	p. 263
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