Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans: The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution Whatmore Richard
Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans: The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution Whatmore Richard A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth centuryIn 1798,…
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Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans: The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution Whatmore Richard
A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth centuryIn 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. The Barracks were the remnants of an experimental community called New Geneva, a settlement of Calvinist republican rebels who fled the continent in 1782. Many of the Irish were republicans inspired by the French Revolution, and the site of their demise was known as Genevan Barracks.
The experiment was abandoned, however, after the Calvinists demanded greater independence and more state money for their project. The British believed that the rectitude and industriousness of these imported revolutionaries would have a positive effect on the Irish populace. Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans tells the story of a utopian city inspired by a
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