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12 - Radicalizing Club Life in 1790s Britain

from Part II - The French Revolution Radicalizes Social Movements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2021

Micah Alpaugh
Micah Alpaugh
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University of Central Missouri
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The hopes of the French Revolution were most keenly felt by their Catholic coreligionists in Ireland. Using revolutionary universalism to surmount long-standing religious differences, the United Irishmen were founded in 1791 to create a new political network for substantive reforms. The network faced suppression after the 1793 Declaration of War, however, and reorganized into militant underground militia cells. Seeking aid from the French government for a militant uprising, the United Irish ultimately rose with disastrous results in 1798.

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United IrishmenIrish Civil RightsTheobald Wolfe ToneFrench RevolutionFrench Revolutionary Wars
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Friends of Freedom
The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
 , pp. 311 - 337
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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