The cabbage plot rebels
The author’s goal was to “explore the manner in which the men and women of Limerick reacted to the tumultuous year of revolutions”.
Prior to the death of Daniel O’Connell at the height of the Great Famine in 1847, the vast majority of Irish people supported him, but there was a growing minority of critical intellectuals, represented by Young Irelanders. Both O’Connell and Young Ireland desired repeal of the Act of Union and thus Irish independence, but Young Ireland was not prepared to rule out the use of force unequivocally “at all times, and in every circumstance”.
