The Cato Street Conspiracy (eBook, ePUB)

Plotting, counter-intelligence and the revolutionary tradition in Britain and Ireland
Redaktion: Mcelligott, Jason; Conboy, Martin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On 23 February 1820 a group of radicals were arrested in Cato Street off the Edgware Road in London. They were within sixty minutes of setting out to assassinate the British cabinet. Five of the conspirators were subsequently executed and another five were transported for life to Australia. The plotters were a mixture of English, Scots and Irish tradesmen, and one was a black Jamaican. They were motivated by a desire to avenge the 'Peterloo' massacre and intended to declare a republic, which they believed would encourage popular risings in London and across Britain. This volume of essays uses contemporary reports by Home Office spies and informers to assess the seriousness of the conspiracy. It traces the practical and intellectual origins of the plotters' willingness to use violence; describes the links between Irish and British radicals who were willing to take up arms; makes a contribution to early black history in Britain; examines the European context to events, and follows the lives and careers of those plotters exiled to Australia. A significant contribution to our understanding of a particularly turbulent period of British history, these well-written essays will find an appreciative audience among undergraduates, graduate students and scholars of British and Irish history and literature, black history, and the related fields of intelligence history and Strategic Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526145000
• Artikelnr.: 58420759

Autorenporträt

Jason McElligott is the Director of Marsh's Library, Dublin, Ireland Martin Conboy is Professor of Journalism History at the University of Sheffield

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 'We only have to be lucky once': Cato Street, insurrection and
the revolutionary tradition Jason McElligott and Martin Conboy 1. When did
they know? The cabinet, informers and Cato Street Richard A. Gaunt 2.
Joining up the dots: contingency, hindsight and the British insurrectionary
tradition John Stevenson 3. The men they couldn't hang: 'sensible' radicals
and the Cato Street Conspiracy Jason McElligott 4. Cato Street in
international perspective Malcolm Chase 5. Cato Street and the Caribbean
Ryan Hanley 6. Cato Street and the Spencean politics of transnational
insurrection Ajmal Waqif 7. State witnesses and spies in Irish political
trials, 1794-1803 Martyn J. Powell 8. The shadow of the Pikeman: Irish
craftsmen and British radicalism, 1803-20 Timothy Murtagh 9. The fate of
the transported Cato Street conspirators Kieran Hannon 10. Scripted by
whom? 1820 and theatres of rebellion John Gardner Afterword Caoimhe Nic
Dháibhéid and Colin W. Reid