Wonder if any one can help with the following request...
I'm doing some work on the Whiteboys, one of the early peasant
movements / secret societies active in late eighteenth century
Ireland.. and am interested in their connections within a whole
Atlantic culture of movement, dispossession and radical action. I've
come across some references which connect them into seasonal migration
and emigration to Newfoundland- especially in th 1760's- but have been
able to find little detail - particularly the report of a drunk
missionary of the United Society for the Propagation of the gospel...
who was paid in fish and so annoyed his parishioners- who also mostly
paid their pew rents in fish- thatthey burnt his house down....
just wondering if anybody knows of any good histories/ geographies of
Newfoundland especially of labour in the fisheries etc I've checked
out John Mannion's historical geography but it is very Sauerian...
Thanks
Dave Featherstone
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