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The Whiteboys: Ireland's Secret Agrarian Rebels
In the 1760s, as Ireland simmered under Protestant Ascendancy and rack-renting landlords, a secret society emerged from the rural poor. Dressed in white smocks and operating under cover of night, the Whiteboys—or Buachaillí Bána—waged a shadow war against enclosure, tithes, and oppressive rents. They dug up fields, maimed cattle, and issued threatening notices signed by their mythical leader, Queen Sive. But who were they really? This episode of The History of Ireland peels back the layers of myth and state suppression to reveal the ordinary farmers, labourers, and cottiers who formed the…
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