Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Its Diaspora: The Persistence of Tradition

by Kyle Hughes and Donald Macraild

Book Overview

This is the first full-length study of Irish Ribbonism, tracing the development of the movement from its origins in the Defender movement of the 1790s to the latter part of the century when the remnants of the Ribbon tradition found solace in a new movement: the quasi-constitutional affinities of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Placing Ribbonism firmly within Ireland's long tradition of collective action and protest, this book shows that, owing to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800856717
• ISBN13: 9781800856714
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 360 Pages