The Terry Alt Movement 1829-31 by James S. Donnelly, Jr.

The Terry Alt movement of 1828-31 has been one of I the least studied of pre-Famine rural revolts, partly because it was dwarfed by the great anti-tithe agitation with which it temporarily shared the stage at the outset of the 1830s. The name itself is obscure. According to the traveller John Barrow, writing in 1836, … Read more