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Often appears with: treaties, truces, and peacemaking · tithes and rent rises · religious persecution and toleration · religious persecution · protestant vs catholic discontent · civil war and rebellion
Usually: argument (1) · indignation (1)
“Treat them like men who ought to be as free as yourselves. Put an end to that system of religious persecution which for seventy years has divided the kingdom against itself; in these two circumstances lies the cure of insurrection; perform them completely, and you will have an affectionate poor, instead of oppressed and discontented vassals.” Arthur Young, A Tour in Ireland. 1776-1779 · precept
“Men who are in such a situation that from various causes they cannot work, and won't enlist, should emigrate; if they stay at home they must remain a burthen upon the community.” Arthur Young, A Tour in Ireland. 1776-1779 · observation
He links Irish insurrection to Protestant-Catholic division, contrasting earlier boy groups with the Whiteboys, who resisted tithes and rising rents, and argues reform must target landlords’ conduct and religious persecution.
truth: and what is liberty but a farce and a jest, if its blessings are received as the favour of kindness and humanity, instead of being the inheritance of right? Consequences have flowed from these oppressions which ought long ago to have put a stop to them. In England we have heard much of White-boys, Steel-boys, Oak-boys, Peep-of-day-boys, etc. But these various insurgents are not to be confounded, for they ar…