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Radical backgrounds Radical backgrounds
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Defenders Defenders
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The radical gentry The radical gentry
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A smuggling culture A smuggling culture
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Agrarianism / the houghers Agrarianism / the houghers
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United Irishmen in the aftermath of 1798 United Irishmen in the aftermath of 1798
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Myles Prendergast and Johnny the outlaw Myles Prendergast and Johnny the outlaw
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Emmet's rebellion Emmet's rebellion
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Prendergast and Gibbons, 1803–1808 Prendergast and Gibbons, 1803–1808
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Notes Notes
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Abstract
This chapter closely examines the massive wave of agrarian agitation which manifested itself in Galway and Mayo during the winter of 1798–1799. On 22 August 1798, prophesies of a French invasion were apparently fulfilled with the appearance of a small squadron in Killala Bay. Unfortunately, the great rebellion of 1798 had been suppressed several weeks earlier. Nonetheless, the tiny French army was joined by thousands of Irish volunteers. In the succeeding 200 years, historians have failed to explain satisfactorily what drove as many as 10,000 supposedly complacent Irish peasants to partake in such an apparently ill-conceived endeavour. The existence of an underground Catholic gentry with long-term connections to the continent and the interrelated presence of a pervasive smuggling culture, coupled with traditional agrarian discontent, had produced a deeply rooted, albeit unfocused, anti-state mentalité into which the radical organizations tapped.
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