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New documentary short ‘Land and Revolution’ out now - https://youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts?si=Dhn-BXZTHQHbF51v
New edited volume ‘Spirit of Revolution’ - https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/spirit-of-revolution
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A particularly colourful example from 1981 - "Luis Against the Queen of England", in which a Brazilian revolutionary teams up with the IRA, a retired British officer and Colonel Gadaffi to kidnap the Queen from her yacht and demand the reunification of Ireland.
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In case anyone's interested, one of the things I'll be working on over the next few months is a short, slightly strange little book about this guy, a Black man posing as a South Asian man elected to the Derry Town Council in 1876: www.dib.ie/biography/de...
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Please add me - researching rural labour & agrarian movements in Ireland 1760s to 1920s.
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To some extent true of Wales also.
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effort by a centralising Tudor state to enforce reforms based on notions of what was 'normal' by the standards of the Home Counties.
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Basically, bearing mind the passage of years since I sat in one of his lectures, the author's take is that the 'marches' between England & Scotland and between English Ireland & Gaelic Ireland had similar societies (e.g. more pastoralism, powerful lords, segmentary lineage groups) & faced a similar
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Taking me back years here but I heard a lot about frontiers in Wales, Ireland & the North as an undergrad-
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Where in the Midlands was that John?
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John Feehan mentions some in his book on the Slieve Blooms, I have not gone to see them yet.
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Just re-reading this lately myself -
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I am not sure the ethnicity of the author is particularly relevant. James Donnelly is an excellent historian of Ireland, with a book on the Famine. This book here - journals.openedition.org/etudesirland... is very interesting but about just after Famine -
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As I've argued previously: "examining the historical dimensions of this term is one way of showing how conceptually empty it is in the present. What exactly constitutes the ‘class’ content of the contemporary use of ‘white working class’ is hard to see."
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