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Rockites, Magistrates and Parliamentarians - Governance and Disturbances in Pre-Famine Rural Munster (Hardcover)
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Rockites, Magistrates and Parliamentarians - Governance and Disturbances in Pre-Famine Rural Munster (Hardcover)
Series: Rural Worlds
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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 and sustained campaign of arson,
intimidation and houghing (maiming of animals) across the southern
half of Ireland during the 1820s, quickly attracting the attention
of the authorities in both Ireland and Britain. Combining analyses
of local and economic concerns with wider national political
dimensions, this book offers an in-depth and alternative
interpretation of the Rockites. Attaching particular importance to
the political dimensions of the Rockites, Katsuta demonstrates how
their political mindset was created by local circumstances. Styling
themselves descendants of the United Irishmen, Rockites drew on the
memories of the bitter political struggles in Cork during the
1790s, as well as current political events such as Daniel
O'Connell's mass mobilisation to oppose the Catholic relief bill in
1821. As well as situating the Rockites within the Irish context,
the book also offers insights into how British politicians dealt
with Ireland in the early years of the Union. The Rockite
disturbances prompted the Tory government to adopt a new course
that proved less a remedy to problems in Ireland than as a response
to events within parliament. In turn Rockites became a useful tool
for Whigs and radicals in Westminster to blame the Tories for the
misgovernment of Ireland, revealing how the Irish question in the
early nineteenth-century UK was regarded first and foremost as a
parliamentary issue.
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