http://www.thejournal.ie/obsolete-laws-ireland-1100130-Sep2013/
Whiteboys were agarian protest movement-White is the french colour. the white cockade the Jacobites. The Whiteboys can be seen loosely as the fathers of the IRA and the modern Irish state.
While it would be a mistake to view the Whiteboys as a proto-IRA or Fenian Brotherhood. As a secret society acting against Landlords, and strong farmers and often RC Priests.( The animus against Priest was the fees charged for Baptisms and such-Its not until the devotional revolution that modern Irish Catholicism emerges ) The idea of our law, versus their law maintained
Whiteboys were agarian protest movement-White is the french colour. the white cockade the Jacobites. The Whiteboys can be seen loosely as the fathers of the IRA and the modern Irish state.
While it would be a mistake to view the Whiteboys as a proto-IRA or Fenian Brotherhood. As a secret society acting against Landlords, and strong farmers and often RC Priests.( The animus against Priest was the fees charged for Baptisms and such-Its not until the devotional revolution that modern Irish Catholicism emerges ) The idea of our law, versus their law maintained
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