Captain Rock : the Irish agrarian rebellion of 1821-1824

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Label

Captain Rock : the Irish agrarian rebellion of 1821-1824

Title remainder

the Irish agrarian rebellion of 1821-1824

Statement of responsibility

James S. Donnelly, Jr

Title variation

Irish agrarian rebellion of 1821-1824

Creator

• Donnelly, James S

Subject

• Ireland -- History -- 1800-1837
• Peasant uprisings -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century

Language

eng

Summary

"Named for its mythical leader "Captain Rock," avenger of agrarian wrongs, the Rockite movement of 1821-24 in Ireland was notorious for its extraordinary violence. In Captain Rock, James S. Donnelly, Jr., offers both a fine-grained analysis of the conflict and a broad exploration of Irish rural society after the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars." "Drawing on a wealth of sources - the reports of policemen, military officers, magistrates, and landowners, buttressed by newspapers, pamphlets, parliamentary inquiries, depositions, rebel proclamations, and threatening missives sent by Rockites to their enemies - Captain Rock offers a detailed anatomy of a dangerous, widespread insurgency whose distinctive political and cultural contours will force historians to expand their notions of how agrarian militancy operated and of how it influenced Irish nationalism in the years before the Great Famine of 1845-54."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• History of Ireland and the Irish diaspora

Cataloging source

WU/DLC

Dewey number

941.5081

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DA975

LC item number

.D66 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

History of Ireland and the Irish diaspora