Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xii

Introduction: Crime, Violence, and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century; Themes and Perspectives

pp 1-18

Section 1 - ‘Secret Societies’ and Collective Violence

pp 19-20

1 - Whiteboys and Ribbonmen: What's in a Name?

pp 21-37

2 - The Law of Captain Rock

pp 38-52

3 - ‘Night Marauders’ and ‘Deluded Wretches’: Public Discourses on Ribbonism in Pre-Famine Ireland

pp 53-66

4 - Organised Labour in Limerick City, 1819–1821: Violence and the Struggle for Legitimacy

pp 67-84

Section 2 - The Law and its Responses

pp 85-86

5 - Cork's Courthouses, the Landed Elite, and the Rockite Rebellion: Architectural Responses to Agrarian Violence, 1820–1827

pp 87-111

6 - Constitutional Rhetoric as Legal Defence: Irish Lawyers and the Languages of Political Dissent in 1848

pp 112-130

7 - ‘Why, it's like a ’98 trial’: The Irish Judiciary and the Fenian Trials, 1865–1866

pp 131-148

8 - Crime and Punishment: Whiteboyism and the Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland

pp 149-172

Section 3 - Sectarianism and Violence

pp 173-174

9 - From Bandon to … Bandon: Sectarian Violence in Cork during the Nineteenth Century

pp 175-192

10 - ‘Loyal to the Crown but not the Crown's Government’: The Challenge to Policing Posed by the Orange Order in 1830s Ulster

pp 193-208

Section 4 - Manifestations of Crime and Violence

pp 209-210

11 - Arson in Modern Ireland: Fire and Protest before the Famine

pp 211-226

12 - The Head Pacificator and Captain Rock: Sedition, Suicide, and Honest Tom Steele

pp 227-242

13 - ‘Skin the Goat's Curse’ on James Carey: Narrating the Story of the Phoenix Park Murders through Contemporary Broadside Ballads

pp 243-263

14 - Attitudes and Responses to Vagrancy in Ireland in the Long Nineteenth Century

pp 264-279

Index

pp 280-289