Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Nineteenth Century by Mark Lawrence

Author:Mark Lawrence [Lawrence, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367859756
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

Beames sees the Ribbonmen as having a generally nationalist agenda, but looking to others to take the lead. The Ribbon vision of rebellion was that all would rise simultaneously to throw off the English yoke. Organisation was more local and regional than national and the society was shrouded in mystery with oaths and catechisms, which made mobilisation difficult and provided a cover for charlatans. The most recent work on Ribbonism, sees the organisation in Ulster as a much more political force, stating, ‘although its politics could adapt to time and place and to political expediency, Ribbonism persisted in carrying forward an important symbolic grievance with Britain and the belief that Catholic Ireland was oppressed by a Protestant Ascendancy.’16

The British military commander in Ireland in 1866, Lord Strathnairn, saw the Fenian movement as something which had developed markedly from the Whiteboys and Ribbonmen; interestingly making no distinction between the two:

Another material consideration presenting itself; the Leaders who would in the event of an outbreak command the Insurgents, are as superior to the leaders in 1848, the Ribbonmen & the Whiteboys as valuable military experience can be to utter ignorance in military matters.

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