#<- decided to start using the irish name for the whiteboys as their tag because i don't want my posts about them to show up with

[werewolfetone]

Mad that the outbreaks of Whiteboyism in the late 18th century in Ireland were blamed by the Ascendancy class and the British on the Jacobites rather than on the very very obvious fact that the wealthy were starving the peasants and the peasants had had enough--something that the Whiteboys themselves made clear as their motivation. they really said "is it possible we've fucked up and that's why our tenants are torturing us to death while screaming at us that we've fucked up? no, it must be the catholics who are wrong"