Kyle Hughes is Lecturer in British History at Ulster University. Donald M. MacRaild is professor at London Metropolitan and Ulster Universities and is honorary fellow at Edinburgh University.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Crime, Violence, and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century; Themes and PerspectivesKyle Hughes and Donald M. MacRaildSection 1 ‘Secret Societies’ and Collective Violence1 Whiteboys and Ribbonmen: What’s in a Name?Michael Huggins2 The Law of Captain RockTerence M. Dunne3 ‘Night Marauders’ and ‘Deluded Wretches’: Public Discourses on Ribbonism in Pre-Famine IrelandJess Lumsden Fisher4 Organised Labour in Limerick City, 1819–1821: Violence and the Struggle for LegitimacyJohn McGrathSection 2 The Law and its Responses5 Cork’s Courthouses, the Landed Elite, and the Rockite Rebellion: Architectural Responses to Agrarian Violence, 1820–1827Richard J. Butler6 Constitutional Rhetoric as Legal Defence: Irish Lawyers and the Languages of Political Dissent in 1848Colin W. Reid7 ‘Why, it’s like a ’98 trial’: The Irish Judiciary and the Fenian Trials, 1865–1866Richard A. Keogh8 Crime and Punishment: Whiteboyism and the Law in Late Nineteenth-Century IrelandCiara Breathnach and Laurence M. GearySection 3 Sectarianism and Violence9 From Bandon to … Bandon: Sectarian Violence in Cork during the Nineteenth Century Ian d’Alton10 ‘Loyal to the Crown but not the Crown’s Government’: The Challenge to Policing Posed by the Orange Order in 1830s UlsterDaragh CurranSection 4 Manifestations of Crime and Violence11 Arson in Modern Ireland: Fire and Protest before the FamineGemma Clark12 The Head Pacificator and Captain Rock: Sedition, Suicide, and Honest Tom SteelePatrick Maume13 ‘Skin the Goat’s Curse’ on James Carey: Narrating the Story of the Phoenix Park Murders through Contemporary Broadside BalladsTeresa O’Donnell14 Attitudes and Responses to Vagrancy in Ireland in the Long Nineteenth CenturyVirginia CrossmanIndex

'While it is impossible in a short review to do full justice to the many essays in this volume... This is an important addition to the study of crime and violence in Ireland in the nineteenth century and is highly recommended to scholars and students who are interested in the subject.'Brian Griffin, Irish Studies Review

Kyle Hughes is Lecturer in British History at Ulster University. Donald M. MacRaild is professor at London Metropolitan and Ulster Universities and is honorary fellow at Edinburgh University.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Crime, Violence, and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century; Themes and PerspectivesKyle Hughes and Donald M. MacRaildSection 1 ‘Secret Societies’ and Collective Violence1 Whiteboys and Ribbonmen: What’s in a Name?Michael Huggins2 The Law of Captain RockTerence M. Dunne3 ‘Night Marauders’ and ‘Deluded Wretches’: Public Discourses on Ribbonism in Pre-Famine IrelandJess Lumsden Fisher4 Organised Labour in Limerick City, 1819–1821: Violence and the Struggle for LegitimacyJohn McGrathSection 2 The Law and its Responses5 Cork’s Courthouses, the Landed Elite, and the Rockite Rebellion: Architectural Responses to Agrarian Violence, 1820–1827Richard J. Butler6 Constitutional Rhetoric as Legal Defence: Irish Lawyers and the Languages of Political Dissent in 1848Colin W. Reid7 ‘Why, it’s like a ’98 trial’: The Irish Judiciary and the Fenian Trials, 1865–1866Richard A. Keogh8 Crime and Punishment: Whiteboyism and the Law in Late Nineteenth-Century IrelandCiara Breathnach and Laurence M. GearySection 3 Sectarianism and Violence9 From Bandon to … Bandon: Sectarian Violence in Cork during the Nineteenth Century Ian d’Alton10 ‘Loyal to the Crown but not the Crown’s Government’: The Challenge to Policing Posed by the Orange Order in 1830s UlsterDaragh CurranSection 4 Manifestations of Crime and Violence11 Arson in Modern Ireland: Fire and Protest before the FamineGemma Clark12 The Head Pacificator and Captain Rock: Sedition, Suicide, and Honest Tom SteelePatrick Maume13 ‘Skin the Goat’s Curse’ on James Carey: Narrating the Story of the Phoenix Park Murders through Contemporary Broadside BalladsTeresa O’Donnell14 Attitudes and Responses to Vagrancy in Ireland in the Long Nineteenth CenturyVirginia CrossmanIndex

'While it is impossible in a short review to do full justice to the many essays in this volume... This is an important addition to the study of crime and violence in Ireland in the nineteenth century and is highly recommended to scholars and students who are interested in the subject.'Brian Griffin, Irish Studies Review

Kyle Hughes is Lecturer in British History at Ulster University. Donald M. MacRaild is professor at London Metropolitan and Ulster Universities and is honorary fellow at Edinburgh University.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Crime, Violence, and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century; Themes and PerspectivesKyle Hughes and Donald M. MacRaildSection 1 ‘Secret Societies’ and Collective Violence1 Whiteboys and Ribbonmen: What’s in a Name?Michael Huggins2 The Law of Captain RockTerence M. Dunne3 ‘Night Marauders’ and ‘Deluded Wretches’: Public Discourses on Ribbonism in Pre-Famine IrelandJess Lumsden Fisher4 Organised Labour in Limerick City, 1819–1821: Violence and the Struggle for LegitimacyJohn McGrathSection 2 The Law and its Responses5 Cork’s Courthouses, the Landed Elite, and the Rockite Rebellion: Architectural Responses to Agrarian Violence, 1820–1827Richard J. Butler6 Constitutional Rhetoric as Legal Defence: Irish Lawyers and the Languages of Political Dissent in 1848Colin W. Reid7 ‘Why, it’s like a ’98 trial’: The Irish Judiciary and the Fenian Trials, 1865–1866Richard A. Keogh8 Crime and Punishment: Whiteboyism and the Law in Late Nineteenth-Century IrelandCiara Breathnach and Laurence M. GearySection 3 Sectarianism and Violence9 From Bandon to … Bandon: Sectarian Violence in Cork during the Nineteenth Century Ian d’Alton10 ‘Loyal to the Crown but not the Crown’s Government’: The Challenge to Policing Posed by the Orange Order in 1830s UlsterDaragh CurranSection 4 Manifestations of Crime and Violence11 Arson in Modern Ireland: Fire and Protest before the FamineGemma Clark12 The Head Pacificator and Captain Rock: Sedition, Suicide, and Honest Tom SteelePatrick Maume13 ‘Skin the Goat’s Curse’ on James Carey: Narrating the Story of the Phoenix Park Murders through Contemporary Broadside BalladsTeresa O’Donnell14 Attitudes and Responses to Vagrancy in Ireland in the Long Nineteenth CenturyVirginia CrossmanIndex

'While it is impossible in a short review to do full justice to the many essays in this volume... This is an important addition to the study of crime and violence in Ireland in the nineteenth century and is highly recommended to scholars and students who are interested in the subject.'Brian Griffin, Irish Studies Review