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Cousins on Political Mobilization of the Irish Poor in the 19th Century

By Lawrence Solum

Mel Cousins (Glasgow Caledonian University) posted Collective Action and the Poor Law: The Political Mobilisation of the Irish Poor, 1851?1878 (RIOTOUS ASSEMBLIES: REBELS, RIOTS AND REVOLTS IN IRELAND, W. Sheehan and M. Cronin, eds., Mercier, 2011) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

It is now over three decades since the publication of Clark?s seminal article on the political mobilisation of Irish farmers. Yet many aspects of the political mobilisation of different social classes in Ireland remain un-investigated (or under-investigated). One issue in particular, which has received little study, is the political mobilisation of the Irish poor. This chapter examines one aspect of this issue: collective action by ?poor? people in relation to the operation of the Poor Law in mid-Victorian Ireland, circa 1851 to 1878, the period bounded by the Famine and the Land War.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on January 14, 2011 (boomark / email).