Whiteboyism

One verse refers to an animal-maiming incident — a form of popular protest that was a common manifestation of Whiteboyism in eighteenth-century Ireland and that was probably transferred to the southern Avalon, as there were several other incidents reported during the study period that had ethnic and class undertones. 6 And court records provide evidence of theft from and malicious damage to mercantile premises during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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Whiteboyism, outrage and lawlessness spread over the face of the country, and, as Lord Clare reminded Parliament, "session after session have you been compelled to enact laws of unexampled rigour and novelty to repress the horrible excesses of the mass of your people."

Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union Various

Defenderism, in its purely agrarian aspect, spread to other parts of Ireland, where Protestants were few, and became merged in Whiteboyism.

The Framework of Home Rule Erskine Childers 1896

Rockism and Whiteboyism were the determination of a people, who had nothing that could be called theirs but a daily meal of the lowest description of food, not to submit to being deprived of that for other people's convenience.

The Framework of Home Rule Erskine Childers 1896

Stern acts were passed against Whiteboyism; volunteers put themselves at the disposal of the magistrates, and the rising was at last crushed, not without cruelty and an unfair administration of the criminal law.

The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration William Hunt 1886

We have been trying this for more than one hundred years, since Whiteboyism appeared, and trying it in vain.

Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question Henry Thring Thring 1862

Finnerty's, where, from his connection with Whiteboyism, he knew that

The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

The poor youth who had been appointed, under the diabolical system of Whiteboyism, to perpetrate that awful crime, was the very young man who, during the journey of the Whiteboys to the mountains, had held a kind of _sotto voce_ conversation with the mysterious person who proved himself to be so sincere a friend to Frank M'Carthy.

The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

Nothing else can account for the dreadful progress which Whiteboyism has made upon your Lordship's property, where it is much more outrageous and turbulent than in any other district that I am acquainted with.

Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

Whiteboyism, was placed in a position of great difficulty and danger.

The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831