WHITEBOYS

members of small illegal, largely Roman Catholic, peasant bands in 18th-century Ireland. First organized (c.1759) in protest against the large-scale enclosure of common lands and other causes of agrarian distress, they were so called because on their nocturnal raids they often wore white disguises. They were heavily suppressed (1765), but outbreaks of similar activity recurred during periods of extreme agricultural hardship. Hostility (1775–85) was largely aimed at tithe collectors. There were similar, although shortlived, Protestant groups in Ulster, the Oakboys (1763) and the Steelboys (1770). Terrorist activity hastened the establishment of the Irish Parliament (1782), in which Henry Grattan attempted to reform the system of tithes. Although the Whiteboys were suppressed, they set a pattern for agrarian unrest that continued under various names and later became politicized.

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The Cooper's Wife Is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary
Book by Joan Hoff, Marian Yeates; Basic Books, 2000
Subjects: Murder--Ireland--Tipperary (County)--Case Studies, Tipperary (Ireland : County)--Social Conditions--19th Century
...eighteenth century when bands of tenant farmers and agricultural laborers -- known as hillside men, ribbon men, moonlighters, or Whiteboys -- terrorized landlords and lackeys alike. After the Great Famine, violence flared again in the Land War of the 1880s, when...
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Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
Book by Kevin Kenny; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Coal Miners--Pennsylvania--History, Irish Americans--Pennsylvania--History, Irish Americans--Pennsylvania--Social Conditions, Molly Maguires
...3 1 Whiteboys, Ribbonmen, and Molly Maguires...make sense of the Molly Maguires. 1 Whiteboys, Ribbonmen, and Molly Maguires Contrary...secret societies that began with the Whiteboys. The American Molly Maguires were a...
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Ireland Her Own: An Outline History of the Irish Struggle for National Freedom and Independence
Book by T. A. Jackson, C. Desmond Greaves; Lawrence & Wishart, 1991
Subjects: Ireland--History, Irish Question
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A History of England in the Eighteenth Century - Vol. IV
Book by William Edward Hartpole Lecky; Longmans, Green, 1883
Subjects: Great Britain--History--18th Century
...1760-1778. The Whiteboys. Growth...of commonage. First proceedings of the Whiteboys 320...Laws against Whiteboys 341...
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The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Book by S. J. Connolly; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Ireland--History--Encyclopedias
...feature of Irish rural society from the appearance of the * Whiteboys in Co. Tipperary in 1761 to the * Famine. Secrecy was protected...agrarian movements of the 18th century were the * Houghers, the Whiteboys, the * Oakboys, the * Hearts of Steel, and the * Rightboys...
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Whispered Presences in Sean O'Faolain's Stories
Journal article by Michael Neary; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 32, 1995
Subjects: Authors, American--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Irish fiction--Criticism, interpretation, etc., O'Faolain, Sean--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...bailiffs, forcible entry, rights-of-way, actions for trespass, easements, appeals, breaches of covenant, the Land leaguers, the Whiteboys, Parnell and Captain Boycott, as if the bootmaker downstairs slept with a shotgun by his bed every night and a brace of bloodhounds...
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Black Gay Male Discourse: Reading Race and Sexuality Between the Lines
Journal article by Arthur Flannigan-Saint-Aubin; Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 3, 1993
Subjects: Sex Customs--History, Sexology
...Untied," for example, where the theme resonates uncannily: In California, I learned the touch and taste of snow. Cruising whiteboys, I played out adolescent dreams deferred. Patterns of black upon white upon black upon white mesmerized me. I focused hard...
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Imagining Eire: History as Fiction in the Novels of Tom Flanagan
Journal article by Shaun O'Connell; MELUS, Vol. 18, 1993
Subjects: Flanagan, Tom--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Irish Americans--Literature, The Tenants of Time (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Year of the French (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...years. Thus the Mayo yeomanry are the shadowy and bigoted forerunners of the B Specials, the secret society called the Whiteboys of Killala is the Provisional IRA, while the brief |Republic of Connaught parallels Free Derry nearly two centuries later...
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A Tale of Other Places: Sophia Lee's the Recess and Colonial Gothic
Journal article by Janina Nordius; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 34, 2002
Subjects: Fiction--18th century, Lee, Sophia--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literature--18th century, The Recess (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women authors--18th century
...barbarous, lacking in structure" (6). (9) From the 1760s and well into the 1780s, Ireland was swept by rural rebellions by the "Whiteboys" and similar groups; in 1782 the Irish parliament succeeded in gaining legislative independence from London. In Ellinors less...
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William Smith O'Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848
Journal article by Jennifer Harrison; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 50, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, William Smith O'Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848. (Book)--Book reviews
...Sheriff was Richard Pennefather, son of former Chief Justice Edward Pennefather who had sentenced so many of the Ribbonmen and Whiteboys to New South Wales and Tasmania in the 1820s. OBrien was found guilty of high treason but recommended to mercy. The British...
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Mr. Hoch Goes to Hollywood : Why Whiteboys Wasn't at a Theater near You
Magazine article by Danny Hoch; The Nation, Vol. 270, April 3, 2000
Subjects: Actors--Personal narratives, Motion pictures--Production and direction, Movies
Mr. Hoch Goes to Hollywood : Why Whiteboys Wasnt at a Theater near You. by...Belcon and I spent two years writing Whiteboys, a tragicomedy about a white kid in Iowa...company, NewsCorp, who had a copy of Whiteboys under his arm as he sat down. Newscorp...


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Paddick Can Halt Killing, Says Lawrence Friend; Murder Witness: Duwayne Brooks
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 9, 2008
Subjects: Murder
...way home on the night of 22 April 1993 in Eltham. As they waited for a bus, Mr Brooks spotted a group of five or six young whiteboys who ran across the road towards the pair. Mr Brooks fled from them, yelling at his friend to do the same. But the groupsurrounded...
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Lie Down and Think of Fame; WOWMOVIES Piper Perabo Can't Believe How Lucky She Has Been to Land a Part with De Niro in Rocky and Bullwinkle
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), February 9, 2001
...after bluffing that she knew all about hip-hop, she frantically studied rappers on MTV for her breakout role in last years Whiteboys, an indie film about a posse of rapper wannabes. She also told the Coyote Ugly film-makers a little fib about her musical...


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Whiteboys
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WHITEBOYS members of small illegal, largely Roman Catholic, peasant bands in 18th-century Ireland. First organized (c.1759...establishment of the Irish Parliament (1782), in which Henry Grattan attempted to reform the system of tithes. Although the Whiteboys were suppressed, they set a pattern for agrarian unrest that continued under various names and later became politicized...


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