Food rioting in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gardens the bramble-strewn shells of abandoned

the bramble-strewn shells of abandoned canals and copper mines

one of the most studied manifestations of purposeful protest internationally

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Food rioting in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gardens the bramble-strewn shells of abandonedFour Courts Press (2017) Hardback, 227 pages 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 eighteenth century and 1860. This book provides a fully documented account of this phenomenon, and seeks to lay the foundations for a more structured analysis of popular protest during a period when riotous behaviour was normative. Though the study