 | Richard Barry O'Brien - 1883 - 506 страници
...the Rockites of 1835, sought one end, and pursued it by uniform means ; the end, the adjustment of the relation of landlord and tenant for the benefit of the latter; the means, the destruction of the lives and properties of all who thwarted their designs. The demands... | |
 | Richard Barry O'Brien - 1887 - 328 страници
...may be considered as a vast trades union for the protection of the Irish peasantry, the object being to keep the actual occupant in possession of his land,...landlord and tenant for the benefit of the latter." * Parliament had regulated it for the benefit of the former. With reference to the subject of Whiteboyism,... | |
 | 1888 - 950 страници
...be considered as a vast trades union for the protection of tbe Irish tenantry, the object being .... in general to regulate the relation of landlord and tenant for the benefit of the latter." i As Thomas Drummond, the Secretary for Ireland, wrote in his immortal reply to the Tipperary magistrates... | |
 | Charles Russell Baron Russell of Killowen - 1889 - 636 страници
...; the object being, not to regulate the rate of wages or the hours of work, but to keep the actiud occupant in possession of his land, and in general...landlord and tenant for the benefit of the latter. . . . That the main object of the Whiteboy disturbances is to keep the actual tenant in undisturbed... | |
 | Richard Barry O'Brien - 1889 - 436 страници
...engaged in administering the Insurrection Act in 1823. 2 There was no Poor Law in Ireland until 1838. land, and, in general, to regulate the relation of...landlord and tenant, for the benefit of the latter." 1 But of all the organisations which disturbed the peace of Ireland at this time, the most powerful... | |
 | William Kirby Sullivan - 1907 - 568 страници
...never realised) would themselves be sufficient to embitter the life of the most thoughtless ; and it is to afford this security that the Whiteboy combinations...the benefit of the latter. Certain other objects are added, the chief of which is to prevent the employment of a stranger, the quantity of work being, in... | |
 | Godfrey Locker Lampson - 1907 - 716 страници
...never realized) would themselves be sufficient to embitter the life of the most thoughtless ; and it is to afford this security that the Whiteboy combinations...landlord and tenant for the benefit of the latter. . . . That the main object of the Whiteboy disturbances is to keep the actual tenant in undisturbed... | |
 | P. J. Drudy - 1982 - 352 страници
...of the great mass of the community'. 'Whiteboyism' was essentially a class phenomenon, which might 'be considered as a vast trades' union for the protection...landlord and tenant for the benefit of the latter'. Whereas 'faction fights' were relatively benign, occurring only 'when the blood is up', combinations... | |
 | Brian A. Jenkins - 1988 - 412 страници
...were subsequently likened to a "sort of trades union," formed for the essential purpose of keeping "the actual occupant in possession of his land, and...landlord and tenant for the benefit of the latter." Their activités were greatly assisted, it was freely conceded, by the "general and settled hatred... | |
 | Roger Swift, Sheridan Gilley - 1989 - 334 страници
...rate of wages, or the hours of work, but to keep the actual occupant in possession of his land, . . . to regulate the relation of landlord and tenant for the benefit of the latter.' A footnote explains: 'We use the term Whiteboy, in a general sense, to include all those disturbances... | |
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The Whiteboy Association may be considered as a vast trades union for the protection of the Irish peasantry; the object being not to regulate the rate of wages or the hours of work, but to keep the actual occupant in possession of his land, and in general... 