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Irish History Podcast

Riots, Murder and The Mob; Protest in Medieval Ireland

Irish History Podcast

Fin Dwyer

Ireland, Irish History, Norman Invasion, Great Hunger, Vikings, Interviews, History, War Of Independence, Great Famine

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2014

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The story of protest in medieval Ireland is a forgotten but fascinating chapter in our history. While forthright and often violent these protests voiced the concerns of ordinary people so often excluded from written records. In this podcast I look at five protests from late medieval Ireland including a water tax in 1244 and Ireland's first recorded strike in 1299. The intriguing stories behind these protests are brought to light for the first time in centuries in this podcast.


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ends on the 22nd of December 2023. Hello and this is Finn Duwara and this is a short history of

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protest in medieval Ireland. In the podcasts in the last few months we have been

1:12.3

following Strongbow and the Norman invasion of Ireland.

1:16.0

But today we are going to look at the fascinating but often forgotten world of protests such as riots, politically motivated murders and at times mob justice in medieval Ireland.

1:29.0

When we think of the Middle Ages, the first thing that springs to mind are kings, queens, lords and ladies.

1:37.0

However, they only represent a tiny fraction of the population.

1:42.0

By looking at protests, we will get a glimpse as to how the other half,

1:47.0

or rather the other 99% of medieval society lived.

1:52.0

Surprisingly enough, when we look at protest, we will see that while at times it can appear,

1:58.0

everything has changed in the last seven or eight centuries, some things have stayed the same. Things that arc people today, taxation,

2:07.0

war and wages, were the cause of protests in the Middle Ages as well.

2:12.0

While our ancestors engaged in more forthright demonstrations than we might expect today,

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