THE PEASANTRY AND IRELAND FROM THE TUDOR CONQUEST TO THE FALL OF LANDLORDISM.

At the Rising of the Moon is a sweeping history of a time in Ireland during which the old social order of lordship and tribal property was smashed and erected on its ruins was a social structure of peasants and landlords. From the 1760s, the Irish peasantry developed a uniquely vigorous and continuous tradition of resistance and rebellion against landlord power that laid the foundations of the political upheaval that followed. More than this, this magisterial work illuminates the importance of a common human nature in an always changing social and cultural landscape.

Author Bio: 

Marc Mulholland, originally from County Antrim, is a Professor of Modern History at St Catherine’s College, Oxford University. He specialises in the development of international socialism, the history of political thought, Revolution and modern Ireland. His previous works include The Murderer of Warren Street (Penguin, Daily Express Book of the Year), Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press).