Download or read book Dublin Hanged written by Brian Henry and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Behind the glorious facade of Georgian Dublin lurked a massive crime problem. In the late eighteenth century as the wealth of the city increased, so too did burglary and violent crime. The Hibernian Journal reported in 1780 that "murder in this city has become so common, that it has lost all its horrors; every day teems with new instances of the most horrid barbarity." The city was faced with a stark choice: either eliminate the armed footpads and highway robbers or be crushed by them. The authorities embarked on a crusade to sentence hundreds of convicted felons to death. Hundreds more were transported abroad. Dublin Hanged traces the source of the problem to the first wave of crimes and it follows up on the solution to the last wave of hangings. The author examines the horrific and violent industrial conflicts as well as the catastrophic policy of sending convicts to the Americas long after England had stopped this practice."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book The London Hanged written by Peter Linebaugh and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Linebaugh's groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors. Rather it evidently served the most sinister purpose-for a prvileged ruling class-of forcing the poor population of London to accept the criminalization of customary rights and the new forms of private property. Necessity drove the city's poor into inevitable conflict with the changing property laws, such that all the working-class men and women of London had good reason to fear the example of Tyburn's Triple Tree. In this new edition Peter Linebaugh reinforces his original arguments with responses to his critics based on an impressive array of historical sources. As the trend of capital punishment intensifies with the spread of global capitalism, The London Hanged also gains in contemporary relevance.
Download or read book Dublin written by David Dickson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dublin has experienced great—and often astonishing—change in its 1,400 year history. It has been the largest urban center on a deeply contested island since towns first appeared west of the Irish Sea. There have been other contested cities in the European and Mediterranean world, but almost no European capital city, David Dickson maintains, has seen sharper discontinuities and reversals in its history—and these have left their mark on Dublin and its inhabitants. Dublin occupies a unique place in Irish history and the Irish imagination. To chronicle its vast and varied history is to tell the story of Ireland. David Dickson’s magisterial history brings Dublin vividly to life beginning with its medieval incarnation and progressing through the neoclassical eighteenth century, when for some it was the “Naples of the North,” to the Easter Rising that convulsed a war-weary city in 1916, to the bloody civil war that followed the handover of power by Britain, to the urban renewal efforts at the end of the millennium. He illuminates the fate of Dubliners through the centuries—clergymen and officials, merchants and land speculators, publishers and writers, and countless others—who have been shaped by, and who have helped to shape, their city. He reassesses 120 years of Anglo-Irish Union, during which Dublin remained a place where rival creeds and politics struggled for supremacy. A book as rich and diverse as its subject, Dublin reveals the intriguing story behind the making of a capital city.
Download or read book Hanged for Ireland written by Tim Carey and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Executed for Ireland written by May Moran and published by Mercier Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Patrick Moran lived most of his adult life in Dublin where he took an active part in the GAA, the Gaelic League, the Trade Unions and the Irish Volunteers. He was an active participant in the 1916 Rising and was deported to England after the surrender. On his return in August 1916 he renewed his interest in football and hurling, became a founder member of the Grocers, Vintners and Allied Trades Assistants and he helped to reorganise the Volunteers in Dublin and in his native Roscommon. He was arrested following the assassinations of British Intelligence Officers in Dublin on Bloody Sunday, 21 November 1920, and was finally charged and convicted by a court martial for the murder of Lieutenants Ames and Bennett. He was executed by hanging in March 1921 amid calls from civil and religious leaders for the King of England to exercise the Prerogative of Mercy in an upsurge of overwhelming belief that he was innocent. But was he?
Download or read book Executed for Ireland The Patrick Moran Story written by May Moran and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Patrick Moran lived most of his adult life in Dublin where he took an active part in the GAA, the Gaelic League, the Trade Unions and the Irish Volunteers. He was an active participant in the 1916 Rising and was deported to England after the surrender. On his return in August 1916 he renewed his interest in football and hurling, became a founder member of the Grocers, Vintners and Allied Trades Assistants and he helped to reorganise the Volunteers in Dublin and in his native Roscommon. He was arrested following the assassinations of British Intelligence Officers in Dublin on Bloody Sunday, 21 November 1920, and was finally charged and convicted by a court martial for the murder of Lieutenants Ames and Bennett. He was executed by hanging in March 1921 amid calls from civil and religious leaders for the King of England to exercise the Prerogative of Mercy in an upsurge of overwhelming belief that he was innocent. But was he?
Download or read book A History of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and its Colonial Legacy written by Anastasia Dukova and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the neglected history of the Dublin Metropolitan Police – a history that has been long overshadowed by existing historiography, which has traditionally been preoccupied with the more radical aspects of Irish history. It explores the origins of the institution and highlights the Dublin Metropolitan Police’s profound influence on the colonial forces, as its legacy reached some of the furthest outposts of the British Empire. In doing so Anastasia Dukova provides much needed nuance and complexity to our understanding of Ireland as a whole, and Dublin in particular, demonstrating that it was far more than a lawless place ravaged by political and sectarian violence. Simultaneously, the book tells the story of the bobby on the beat, the policeman who made the organisation; his work and day, the conditions of service and how they affected or bettered his lot at home and abroad.
Download or read book A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse written by Richard Ward and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment. The chapters 'Introduction: A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse' and 'The Gibbet in the Landscape: Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England' are open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Download or read book Hidden Dublin written by Frank Hopkins and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminal incidents, accidents, whippings, beatings, jail escapes and hangings were all part of Dublin's 'brilliant parade' in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, including actors, clergymen, scientists, politicians and rogues and rascals of every hue. Hopkins describes the poverty, soup kitchens, food riots, street beggars and workhouses that were all a feature of Dublin life. He also introduces us to the weird, wonderful, and often downright strange customs and pastimes of Dubliners stretching back to the Middle Ages, such as the 'bearing of balls' annual parade by the city's bachelors and the ritual humiliation of would-be bridegrooms at the bullring.
Download or read book Death in Dublin written by Frank O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death in Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution is a fascinating biography of Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early twentieth century Irish struggle for independence, Michael Collins (1890-1922).Written by famed Irish novelist and short-story writer Frank O’Connor, and first published in 1937, the book covers the period of Collins’s life from the Easter Rising in 1916 to his death during the Irish Civil War in 1922. Unlike most conventional biographies of famous leaders, the author, who himself served with the Anti-Treaty faction during the Irish Civil War, establishes a clear goal in portraying Collins’s character and human qualities above his major achievements. Through his friendship with Richard Hayes, Frank O’Connor was able to meet and interview many people who had known Collins, in particular Collins’ secretary, Joe O’Reilly, who provided invaluable information.In a novel-length biography, stripped of boring detail, Frank O’Connor brings alive the legendary figure of Michael Collins. He uses the factual material from the official biographies to paint in a background that is strictly accurate and historically correct. Against this background strides the recognisably human, extremely vital and challenging figure of him who was to be prophetically nicknamed "The Big Fellow." This portrait, vigorously limned by the word-painting of which Frank O’Connor is such an acknowledged master, will live long in the reader’s memory. Having read it, you will say "Now, I know Collins." -- Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Irish Ecclesiastical Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Ireland written by Martin Haverty and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Catholic Encyclopedia written by Charles George Herbermann and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Catholic Encyclopedia written by Charles Herbermann and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Irish Cities written by David Dickson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization A backward corner of Europe in 1600, Ireland was transformed during the following centuries. This was most evident in the rise of its cities, notably Dublin and Cork. David Dickson explores ten urban centers and their patterns of physical, social, and cultural evolution, relating this to the legacies of a violent past, and he reflects on their subsequent partial eclipse. Beautifully illustrated, this account reveals how the country's cities were distinctive and--through the Irish diaspora--influential beyond Ireland's shores.
Download or read book The History of Ireland written by John Mitchel and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rare Old Dublin written by Frank Hopkins and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirates executed in St Stephen's Green; Mother Bungy's 'sink of sin' in what is now Temple Bar; the Viking thingmote in College Green where human sacrifices took place; hidden holy wells under the city streets: these are just some of the things uncovered by Dubliner Frank Hopkins in this surprising and entertaining book. Famous sons and daughters of the city also make an appearance: John Pius Boland of the famous milling family, who won two Olympic medals for tennis in 1896 playing in street clothes and leather shoes; Jack Langan, the bare-knuckle boxer of Ballybough; Sir William Cameron, the public health specialist who devised a bounty scheme for captured houseflies in 1913; and the Dolocher, the savage eighteenth-century beast in the form of a pig who turned out to be a man.
