Was pre-Famine and Famine Ireland a violent society? The dominant
view among a range of commentators at the time, and in the work of
many historians since, is that violence was both prevalent and
pervasive in the social and cultural life of the country. This book
explores the validity of this perspective through the study of
homicide and what it reveals about wider experiences of violence in
the country at that time. The book provides a quantitative and
contextual analysis of homicide in pre-Famine and Famine Ireland.
It explores the relationship between particular and prominent
causes of conflict - personal, familial, economic and sectarian -
and the use of lethal violence to deal with such conflicts.
Throughout the book, the Irish experience is placed within a
comparative framework and there is also an exploration of what the
history of violence in Ireland might reveal about the wider history
of interpersonal violence in Europe and beyond. The aim throughout
is to challenge the view of nineteenth-century Ireland as a violent
society and to offer a more complex and nuanced assessment of the
part played by violence in Irish life.
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