Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART 1 COUNTY MAYO PRIOR TO THE FAMINE
- 1 The natural and historical setting
- 2 Economy and society, 1691-1846
- 3 Pre-Famine popular politics and rural protest
- PART 2 THE POST-FAMINE TRANSFORMATION OF COUNTY MAYO
- PART 3 THE LAND WAR IN COUNTY MAYO
- 1 Mayo evictions: explanation of calculations and sources for Table 4.1 and Figure 4.1
- 2 Occupations of suspected Fenians, County Mayo, as recorded in police files, 1866-71
- 3 List of persons whose arrest is recommended under the Protection of Persons and Property Act, 1881, County Mayo
- 4 Explanation of categories and list of Land League meetings for Map 5.2 and Table 3.1
- Bibliography
- Index
- Past and Present Publications
3 - Pre-Famine popular politics and rural protest
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART 1 COUNTY MAYO PRIOR TO THE FAMINE
- 1 The natural and historical setting
- 2 Economy and society, 1691-1846
- 3 Pre-Famine popular politics and rural protest
- PART 2 THE POST-FAMINE TRANSFORMATION OF COUNTY MAYO
- PART 3 THE LAND WAR IN COUNTY MAYO
- 1 Mayo evictions: explanation of calculations and sources for Table 4.1 and Figure 4.1
- 2 Occupations of suspected Fenians, County Mayo, as recorded in police files, 1866-71
- 3 List of persons whose arrest is recommended under the Protection of Persons and Property Act, 1881, County Mayo
- 4 Explanation of categories and list of Land League meetings for Map 5.2 and Table 3.1
- Bibliography
- Index
- Past and Present Publications
Summary
I do not consider myself an unnecessary alarmist, but when I see the whole of the lower orders bound to each other by an oath which they observe inviolably, when I see these persons every night patrolling the country breaking open houses, seizing arms, levying contributions, and committing horrible outrages with perfect impunity, when I find the terror of the name of ribbon man to be greater than that of the law, and that no magistrate has yet found one individual bold enough or honest enough to give information to conviction of these miscreants, and yet that they sit quietly down without making any exertions, seeing all this I cannot but consider the law and the power of the country to be in the hands of a rebellious rabble, who if left much longer unchecked will attempt to declare themselves openly the lords and masters of the land.
(J. E. Strickland to Denis Browne, 16 January 1820)As was the case with the economy, popular politics and rural protest in County Mayo remained on the periphery of national life during the half-century before the Famine. Only with the unexpected landing of the French at Killala in August 1798 did County Mayo have a brief moment in the spotlight of radical politics.
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- Land and Popular Politics in IrelandCounty Mayo from the Plantation to the Land War, pp. 74 - 100Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994
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