Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland: From Peterloo to the Present

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This edited collection examines the concept and nature of the ‘people’s martyrology’, raising issues of class, community, religion and authority. It examines modern martyrdom through studies of Peterloo; Tolpuddle; Featherstone; Tonypandy; Emily Davison, fatally injured by the King’s horse on Derby Day, 1913; the 1916 Easter Rising; Jarrow, ‘the town that was murdered, and martyred in the 1930s’; David Oluwale, a Nigerian killed in Leeds in 1965; and Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger striker who died in 1981. It engages with the burgeoning historiography of memory to try to understand why some events, such as Peterloo, Tonypandy and the Easter Rising, have become household names whilst others, most notably Featherstone and Oluwale, are barely known. It will appeal to those interested in British and Irish labour history, as well as the study of memory and memorialization. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii ‘A Divine Discontent with Wrong’: The People’s Martyrology (Quentin Outram, Keith Laybourn)....Pages 1-29 The Making of the Peterloo Martyrs, 1819 to the Present (Joseph Cozens)....Pages 31-58 From ‘Dorchester Labourers’ to ‘Tolpuddle Martyrs’: Celebrating Radicalism in the English Countryside (Clare Griffiths)....Pages 59-84 The Featherstone Massacre and Its Forgotten Martyrs (Quentin Outram)....Pages 85-113 Tonypandy 1910: The Foundations of Welsh Social Democracy (Daryl Leeworthy)....Pages 115-137 Emily Davison: Dying for the Vote (Carolyn P. Collette)....Pages 139-163 Making Irish Martyrs: The Impact and Legacy of the Execution of the Leaders of the Easter Rising, 1916 (Mark McCarthy)....Pages 165-202 The Town that Was Murdered: Martyrs, Heroes and the Urbicide of Jarrow (Matt Perry)....Pages 203-225 David Oluwale: Making His Memory and Debating His Martyrdom (Max Farrar)....Pages 227-262 Bobby Sands, Martyrdom and the Politics of Irish Republican Memory (Stephen Hopkins)....Pages 263-286 ‘The People’s Flag Is Deepest Red, It Shrouded Oft Our Martyred Dead’: Martyrdom and the People’s History (Quentin Outram, Keith Laybourn)....Pages 287-297 Back Matter ....Pages 299-346