Governance and Disturbances in Pre-Famine Rural Munster
by
Shunsuke Katsuta
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Early nineteenth-century Ireland witnessed widespread and prolonged rural unrest, as groups of labourers and smallholders formed secret societies demanding land reform, fair rents, the protection of wages and an end to tithes. One of the most active of these groups - the Rockites - waged a vigorous...