The end of outrage : post-famine adjustment in rural Ireland /
Tells the absorbing story of post-famine Donegal, the Molly Maguires - a secret society who had set themselves up against the exploitation of the rural poor - and Patrick McGlynn - an avaricious schoolmaster who turned informer on them, availing of hunger, disease, debt, hardship, and death to expan...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Prologue: The Era of Infidelity; The Politics of Post-Famine Adjustment; Names that Ring Familiar; Part I; 1: A Letter from Beagh; 2: Bastard Ribbonism; An American Package?; Post-Famine Adjustment; Part II; 3: The Last Places Man Created; Divided Land; 4: James Gallagher; Part III ; 5: The Name of Informer; The Politics of the Ardara Mollies; Madge Craig; Digging for Evidence; A Dying Declaration; Exhumation.
- 6: Judges and AppearancesAnother Day in Court, March 1857; Príosún Dubh Leifir; 7: The Judge between God and Man; A Political Priest; The Bishop and the Curate; An Sagart Mór Ó Gallachóir; Acts of Contrition; 8: Departures and Returns; Order Restored; Molly in the Mine Patch; Marching to Respectability; Part IV; 9: The End of Outrage; To Exchange Themselves for the Future; James Táilliúr and the Bog Road Gate; Those Who Saw it All; A House; A Pretty Wedding; 10: Dangerous Memories; The Living and the Dead; Epilogue; Appendix: Digital Resources; Select Bibliography; Manuscript Material.
- Official PublicationsNewspapers; Other Contemporary Works; Later Works; Index.