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Ha ha! I know that feeling ...
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Ha ha! I know that feeling ...
It's a nice quote. I'm not quite at one with this kind of post-structuralist reading, however. It has the unhappy effect of reducing much of our valuable source material to nothing more than the 'colonial gaze'. Here's what I say:
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's a nice quote. I'm not quite at one with this kind of post-structuralist reading, however. It has the unhappy effect of reducing much of our valuable source material to nothing more than the 'colonial gaze'. Here's what I say:
Thanks Jay. Your really excellent book, 'Outrage in the
Age of Reform', was a *huge* help in the writing! www.cambridge.org/core/books/o...
Age of Reform', was a *huge* help in the writing! www.cambridge.org/core/books/o...
Outrage in the Age of Reform
Cambridge Core - British History after 1450 - Outrage in the Age of Reform
www.cambridge.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Thanks Jay. Your really excellent book, 'Outrage in the
Age of Reform', was a *huge* help in the writing! www.cambridge.org/core/books/o...
Age of Reform', was a *huge* help in the writing! www.cambridge.org/core/books/o...
This and much more available in some good shops:
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November 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
This and much more available in some good shops:
www.kennys.ie/shop/at-the-...
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Yes. He did an interesting 'keywords' book, Raymond Williams style.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Yes. He did an interesting 'keywords' book, Raymond Williams style.
*Very* influential on subsequent historiography. Its (impressively maintained) presentation as disinterested inquiry has concealed a pretty horrifying rationale in favour of liquidating the peasantry as a class by 'extermination' (forcible removal, as the term then meant).
November 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
*Very* influential on subsequent historiography. Its (impressively maintained) presentation as disinterested inquiry has concealed a pretty horrifying rationale in favour of liquidating the peasantry as a class by 'extermination' (forcible removal, as the term then meant).
GCL wants to define 'boyism' as apolitical, to seperate it from O'Connellism, because he's a proponent of shattering peasant political economy via the Poor Law. So he's anxious to assert a radical distinction from the Tithe War etc, which is largely untenable.
November 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
GCL wants to define 'boyism' as apolitical, to seperate it from O'Connellism, because he's a proponent of shattering peasant political economy via the Poor Law. So he's anxious to assert a radical distinction from the Tithe War etc, which is largely untenable.
Yes it is. Cornewall Lewis was a villain, IMV, but that books holds up as a historical sociology.
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Yes it is. Cornewall Lewis was a villain, IMV, but that books holds up as a historical sociology.
15. By 1798, this pragmatic alliance of Defender peasants and bourgeois republicans formed Ireland’s first mass revolutionary movement, welded primarily from below.
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
15. By 1798, this pragmatic alliance of Defender peasants and bourgeois republicans formed Ireland’s first mass revolutionary movement, welded primarily from below.
14. Former elites like Arthur O’Connor, Thomas Addis Emmet, and Lord Edward Fitzgerald joined forces with priests, artisans, and rural radicals — a coalition from parish to parliament.
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
14. Former elites like Arthur O’Connor, Thomas Addis Emmet, and Lord Edward Fitzgerald joined forces with priests, artisans, and rural radicals — a coalition from parish to parliament.
13. By 1796–7, the lines blurred: Defenders took the United oath, and the United Irishmen adopted Defender methods. Both now sought Irish independence and social reform.
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
13. By 1796–7, the lines blurred: Defenders took the United oath, and the United Irishmen adopted Defender methods. Both now sought Irish independence and social reform.
12. Meanwhile, the United Irish movement revived from below. After 1794, new “United” cells appeared among weavers, mechanics, and small farmers — plebeian, practical, and secretive.
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
12. Meanwhile, the United Irish movement revived from below. After 1794, new “United” cells appeared among weavers, mechanics, and small farmers — plebeian, practical, and secretive.
11. The gentry soon co-opted the Orange Order, using it as a counter-revolutionary militia, while its rank-and-file remained peasant and populist.
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
11. The gentry soon co-opted the Orange Order, using it as a counter-revolutionary militia, while its rank-and-file remained peasant and populist.
10. Early Orangeism was rural, plebeian, and violently anti-Catholic. Its rule book banned “Papists,” invoking the 1641 massacres. Armed gangs expelled ~4,000 Catholics from Armagh into Connacht.
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
10. Early Orangeism was rural, plebeian, and violently anti-Catholic. Its rule book banned “Papists,” invoking the 1641 massacres. Armed gangs expelled ~4,000 Catholics from Armagh into Connacht.
9. In Armagh, sectarian warfare erupted. Protestant “Orange Boys” (later the Orange Order) fought Defenders after the “Battle of the Diamond” (Sept 1795). About 30 Defenders died; Orangeism was born.
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
9. In Armagh, sectarian warfare erupted. Protestant “Orange Boys” (later the Orange Order) fought Defenders after the “Battle of the Diamond” (Sept 1795). About 30 Defenders died; Orangeism was born.
8. The Church tried to suppress them: Archbishop Troy excommunicated Defenders — to no effect. Radical deism and anticlericalism were rising. “Deism is daily superseding bigotry,” wrote informer Leonard McNally.
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
8. The Church tried to suppress them: Archbishop Troy excommunicated Defenders — to no effect. Radical deism and anticlericalism were rising. “Deism is daily superseding bigotry,” wrote informer Leonard McNally.
7. By summer 1795, the movement had spread across Connacht and the Midlands, forcing landlords to rely on troops. Many suspected Defenders were press-ganged into the Royal Navy.
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
7. By summer 1795, the movement had spread across Connacht and the Midlands, forcing landlords to rely on troops. Many suspected Defenders were press-ganged into the Royal Navy.
6. Defenders also enforced an agrarian code: demanding higher wages and lower rents, holding “Captain Stout’s” courts to fine landlords and graziers. Camden called it “the usual Irish type of an agrarian code enforced by outrage.”
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
6. Defenders also enforced an agrarian code: demanding higher wages and lower rents, holding “Captain Stout’s” courts to fine landlords and graziers. Camden called it “the usual Irish type of an agrarian code enforced by outrage.”
5. One brutal episode: in Leitrim, locals avenged the killing of a farmer (Muldoon) by revenue officers, killing the entire patrol and provoking army reprisals.
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
5. One brutal episode: in Leitrim, locals avenged the killing of a farmer (Muldoon) by revenue officers, killing the entire patrol and provoking army reprisals.
4. Repression reignited revolt. In spring 1795, Defenders armed themselves across Meath, Westmeath, and Kildare, raiding houses, attacking militia, and burning property — though lethal violence was rare.
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
4. Repression reignited revolt. In spring 1795, Defenders armed themselves across Meath, Westmeath, and Kildare, raiding houses, attacking militia, and burning property — though lethal violence was rare.
3. Pitt’s ministry wanted chaos: Fitzwilliam warned that they sought “confusion from which the Union [of Britain and Ireland] will be welcomed as an escape.”
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
3. Pitt’s ministry wanted chaos: Fitzwilliam warned that they sought “confusion from which the Union [of Britain and Ireland] will be welcomed as an escape.”