in the late 18C when the British were still discriminating against Catholics a gang of young Catholic men roamed the countryside wrecking fences, beating up Protestants, and tipping cattle. Because of their white shirts they were known as the "white boys"
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This is 100% true. And after formal discrimination ended agrarian struggles moved onto securing tennants rights and eventual purchase of their farms. White boys would bleed cattle and sometimes cut their tendons.
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When putting down an outbreak of unrest a priest Fr. Sheehy who had agitated against forced tithing of non church of ireland members was arrested and hanged for sedition. Generally regarded as a miscarriage of justice even within the lifetime of those who convicted him.
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we'd fuckin do it again also irish has lots of fun stuff like this if you go digging, black people are "blue" in irish because "black man" means the devil and meant that before the any irish speaker encountered people with black skin
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