The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland

by Breandan Mac Suibhne

From the time that the blight first came on the potatoes in Ireland in 1845, armed and masked men dubbed Molly Maguires had been raiding the houses of people deemed to be taking advantage of the rural poor. On some occasions, they represented themselves as "Molly's Sons," sent by their mother, to carry out justice; on others, a man attired as a woman, introducing "herself" as Molly Maguire, demanding redress for wrongs inflicted on her children. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198738617
• ISBN13: 9780198738619
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.6"