Firearms, legitimacy and power in eighteenth-century Ireland

Controlling access to firearms was one of the few truly successful Anglo-Irish policies of the eighteenth century and a founding tenant of the penal laws. This thesis examines how a concerted effort to remove access to firearms from the majority Catholic population was largely successful after the e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dean, Stephen Duane
Other Authors: Burns, Robert Arthur ; McBride, Ian Richard
Published: King's College London (University of London) 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.684420