ribbonism

And I went over there for a spate doing the research on the early part of the book, on ribbonism and Hugh Larkin and all the rest of it.

The Great Shame & the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World 2000

Poor Terry, irrevocably pledged to blue ribbonism for the term of his natural chauffeurdom!

My Friend the Chauffeur Frederic [Illustrator] Lowenheim 1901

It might be that to some minds -- certainly to that of the black sheep -- visions of violated blue-ribbonism occurred.

Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure 1859

The curse, however, of these secret confederacies, and indeed of ribbonism in general, is, that the savage principle of personal vengeance is transferred from the nocturnal assault, or the midday assassination, which may be directed against religious or political enemies, to the private bickerings and petty jealousies that must necessarily occur in a combination of ignorant and bigoted men, whose passions are guided by no principle but one of practical cruelty.

Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831

This explains, as we have just put it, and justly put it, the incredible number of murders which are committed in this unhappy country, under the name of way-layings and midnight attacks, where the offence that caused them cannot be traced by society at large, although it is an incontrovertible fact, that to all those who are connected with ribbonism, in its varied phases, it often happens that the projection of such murders is known for weeks before they are perpetrated.

Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831

"patriots" are at the bottom of it; and wherever ribbonism and other secret societies do not exist, there they are certain to set them agoing.

The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831