Food rioting, one of the most studied manifestations of purposeful protest internationally, was practised in Ireland for a century and a half between the early

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces

The book highlights the scale of disorder and the many difficulties faced by the authorities.

In the 1830s, as Britain navigated political reform to stave off instability and social unrest, Ireland became increasingly influential in determining British p

The Irish famine of the 1840s is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the United Kingdom's history. Within six years of the arrival of the potato blight in Irelan