Publisher's Synopsis
A collection of papers presented by historians at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick on riots and public violence across 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st Century Ireland, including: The Dublin Parliamentary Elections 1613, Urban Riots and Popular Protest in Ireland, 1540 to 1640, Riot at Cook Street, 1629, Recovering the freight of the Julia: Conflict on a Connemara Island, The political mobilisation of the Irish poor, 1851-1878, The Irish and the English criminal justice system in London, Conditioned Constitutionalists': The reaction of Fianna Fail grass-roots to the IRA Border Campaign, 1956 - 1962, Notorious Anarchists': The Irish Smallholder and the State during the Emergency (1939-45), Government responses to gang violence in pre-Famine Munster, Riot at Glenosheen, 1822
