As you probably know, RECIRC’s scope comprises the entire English-speaking world. Most days, I am thinking about women writing or being read in early modern Britain and Ireland. But because I am American, and yesterday was Thanksgiving, I had thought that it would be interesting to blog about the women in Plymouth Plantation. However, the […]
The 1760s saw the emergence of a militant agrarian secret society in Ireland called the Whiteboys, who would often dress up at night in white sheets and terrorize local Protestant landowners, destroying property and livestock. They emerged, in part, to protest the collection of tithes supporting the Church of Ireland as well as to protest […]