Synopses & Reviews
Although the history of crowds in modern European history has been one of the most hotly debated subjects since E.P. Thompson's pioneering work of the 1960s, the crowd in Irish history has been largely neglected. This is the first study of the subject during the most turbulent period of Ireland's history. The introduction proposes an outline history of the crowd in Ireland and is followed by eight specialist studies of crowd activity by new and innovative scholars in the field. A special feature of the volume is that it incorporates discussions from a Colloquium held in Belfast in 1998 which was attended by the contributors and senior Irish and British historians.
Review
These are sophisticated specialist essays based on original research... will enrich Irish histories...
History: Reviews of New Books...an excellent collection of essays.
-American Historical Review
About the Author
Peter Jupp is Professor of British History in Queen's University, Belfast. Eoin Magennis is Education Officer in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Crowds in Ireland c.1730-1920--P. Jupp & E. Magennis *
Part I: Crowd Activity Arising From Negotiations between Different Social Classes * Whiskey, Potatoes and True-Born Patriot Paddies: Volunteering and the Construction of the Irish Nation in Northwest Ulster, 1770-1789--B. Mac Suibhne * 'The Invincible Mass': Loyal Crowds in Mid-Ulster, 1795-1796-- A. Blackstock *
Part II: Varieties of Crowd Action * 'A Large Mob, Calling Themselves Freemasons': Masonic Parades in Ulster--P. Mirala * 'Of One Mind?': O'Connellite Crowds in the 1830s and 1840s--M. Cronin * Varieties of Crowd Activity from Fenianism to the Land War, 1867-79--C. Murphy *
Part III: Single-Issue Crowd Protest * In Search of the 'Moral Economy': Food Scarcity in 1756-57 and the Crowd--E. Magennis * Crowd Activity During the Irish Land War, 1879-90--S. Ball * Crowds and the Labor Movement in the Southwest, 1914-23--T. Crean