Description: This important volume based on original research, innovative methodological perspectives and advanced historical scholarship, draws together some of Ireland's leading historians as well emerging talents to examine a range of topics, such as Irish secret societies, agrarian disorder, security and the law, sectarian violence, under the banner of crime and violence in nineteenth-century Ireland.
Brief description: Kyle Hughes is Lecturer in British History at Ulster University.
Review Quotes:
'While it is impossible in a short review to do full justice to the many essays in this volume... This is an important addition to the study of crime and violence in Ireland in the nineteenth century and is highly recommended to scholars and students who are interested in the subject.'
Brian Griffin, Irish Studies Review