Overview

Although the history of crowds in modern European history has been a debated subjects since E.P. Thompson's work of the 1960s, the crowd in Irish history has been largely neglected. This is a study of the subject during the most turbulent period of Ireland's history. The introduction proposes an outline history of the crowd in Ireland and is followed by eight specialist studies of crowd activity. The volume incorporates discussions from a Colloquium held in Belfast in 1998 which was attended by the contributors and senior Irish and British historians.

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'...an excellent collection of essays.' - Kiernan Allen, American Historical Review

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PETER JUPP is Professor of British History in Queen's University, Belfast. He is author of British and Irish Elections, 1734-1831 (1973), Lord Grenville, 1759-1834 (1985) and British Politics on the Eve of Reform (1998). - EOIN MAGENNIS is Education Officer in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. He has written several articles on mid-eighteenth century Ireland and his Golden Age of the Undertakers?: The Irish Political System, 1740-1765 will be published in 2000.

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