Kyle Hughes is Lecturer in British History at Ulster University. Donald M. MacRaild is professor at London Metropolitan and Ulster Universities and is honorary fellow at Edinburgh University.

Reviews'An important contribution to the corpus of scholarship on secret societies, violence and politics in nineteenth-century Ireland.'Jay R. Roszman, Irish Historical Studies 'This is an excellent study, meticulously researched and lucidly written. The considerable detail adds to the interest and value of the work by opening up avenues for further research into this elusive and yet very real world of Irish subversives transnationally in the nineteenth century.'Maura Cronin, Studia Hibernica'A thorough excavation of not just the perceptions of Ribbonism but also the workings of the “official mind” in Dublin Castle during the first few decades of the nineteenth century.'John O’Donovan, Irish Studies Review'Hughes and MacRaild’s study on Ribbonism is to be commended for recalibrating our gaze towards these too often neglected decades, and years, and the lower class voices which filled them.'Kerron Ó Luain, Dublin Review of Books'An outstanding work of scholarship, one that is authoritative, substantial and carefully constructed...The work makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge and understanding of Irish secret societies, specifically Ribbonism, and to a whole range of characters and forces associated with such bodies... Stylish and engaging, Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth‐Century Ireland and its Diaspora is strongly recommended.'Laurence Geary, History: The Journal of the Historical Association

• Introduction: Defining and Refining Ribbonism 1. Out of Defenderism: Ribbonism in the Early Nineteenth Century 2. Ribbon Networks in the 1820s: A Revolutionary Moment 3. Ribbonism, O’Connellism and Catholicism in the 1820s and 1830s 4. The Transnational World of Richard Jones, 1835-42 5. Catholic Collectivism at Home and Abroad during the Famine Period 6. Ribbonmen in their Urban Communities during the 1850s 7. From Ribbonism to Hibernianism in the Post-Famine Diaspora 8. Ribbonmen, Fenians and Hibernians: Clashes and Convergences from the 1870s Conclusion: Ribbonism: ‘An Accretion of Mythical Subject Matter’?

Kyle Hughes is Lecturer in British History at Ulster University. Donald M. MacRaild is professor at London Metropolitan and Ulster Universities and is honorary fellow at Edinburgh University.

Reviews'An important contribution to the corpus of scholarship on secret societies, violence and politics in nineteenth-century Ireland.'Jay R. Roszman, Irish Historical Studies 'This is an excellent study, meticulously researched and lucidly written. The considerable detail adds to the interest and value of the work by opening up avenues for further research into this elusive and yet very real world of Irish subversives transnationally in the nineteenth century.'Maura Cronin, Studia Hibernica'A thorough excavation of not just the perceptions of Ribbonism but also the workings of the “official mind” in Dublin Castle during the first few decades of the nineteenth century.'John O’Donovan, Irish Studies Review'Hughes and MacRaild’s study on Ribbonism is to be commended for recalibrating our gaze towards these too often neglected decades, and years, and the lower class voices which filled them.'Kerron Ó Luain, Dublin Review of Books'An outstanding work of scholarship, one that is authoritative, substantial and carefully constructed...The work makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge and understanding of Irish secret societies, specifically Ribbonism, and to a whole range of characters and forces associated with such bodies... Stylish and engaging, Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth‐Century Ireland and its Diaspora is strongly recommended.'Laurence Geary, History: The Journal of the Historical Association

• Introduction: Defining and Refining Ribbonism 1. Out of Defenderism: Ribbonism in the Early Nineteenth Century 2. Ribbon Networks in the 1820s: A Revolutionary Moment 3. Ribbonism, O’Connellism and Catholicism in the 1820s and 1830s 4. The Transnational World of Richard Jones, 1835-42 5. Catholic Collectivism at Home and Abroad during the Famine Period 6. Ribbonmen in their Urban Communities during the 1850s 7. From Ribbonism to Hibernianism in the Post-Famine Diaspora 8. Ribbonmen, Fenians and Hibernians: Clashes and Convergences from the 1870s Conclusion: Ribbonism: ‘An Accretion of Mythical Subject Matter’?