Crowds in Ireland, c.1720-1920

STEPHEN BALL Research Fellow, National Library of Ireland ALLAN BLACKSTOCK Leverhulme Research Fellow, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University, Belfast TOM CREAN Trades Union Research Officer, Dublin MAURA CRONIN Lecturer in History, Mary Immaculata College, University of Limerick BRENDAN MACSUIBHNE Lecturer in Irish Studies, Notre Dame University PETRI MIRALA Trinity College, Dublin CLARE MURPHY former lecturer of Economic and Social History and Modern History, Queen's University, Belfast

List of Maps List of Abbreviations Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Crowds in Ireland c.1730-1920; P.Jupp & E.Magennis PART ONE: 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 TWO: 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 THREE: 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 Labour Movement in the Southwest, 1914-23; T.Crean Index