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Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans - The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution (Hardcover)
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Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans - The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution (Hardcover)
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A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the
eighteenth century In 1798, members of the United Irishmen were
massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built
town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were republicans
inspired by the French Revolution, and the site of their demise was
known as Geneva Barracks. The Barracks were the remnants of an
experimental community called New Geneva, a settlement of Calvinist
republican rebels who fled the continent in 1782. The British
believed that the rectitude and industriousness of these imported
revolutionaries would have a positive effect on the Irish populace.
The experiment was abandoned, however, after the Calvinists
demanded greater independence and more state money for their
project. Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans tells the story of
a utopian city inspired by a spirit of liberty and republican
values being turned into a place where republicans who had fought
for liberty were extinguished by the might of empire. Richard
Whatmore brings to life a violent age in which powerful states like
Britain and France intervened in the affairs of smaller, weaker
countries, justifying their actions on the grounds that they were
stopping anarchists and terrorists from destroying society,
religion and government. The Genevans and the Irish rebels, in
turn, saw themselves as advocates of republican virtue, willing to
sacrifice themselves for liberty, rights and the public good.
Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans shows how the massacre at
Geneva Barracks marked an end to the old Europe of diverse
political forms, and the ascendancy of powerful states seeking
empire and markets-in many respects the end of enlightenment
itself.
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