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Introduction ‘We only have to be lucky once’
Cato Street, insurrection and the revolutionary tradition
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An overview of the Cato Street Conspiracy and why it should be taken seriously by historians of Britain and Ireland.
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Abstract
An overview of the Cato Street Conspiracy and why it should be taken seriously by historians of Britain and Ireland.
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Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vii
- Notes on contributors viii
- Abbreviations xi
- Introduction ‘We only have to be lucky once’ 1
- 1 When did they know? The cabinet, informers and Cato Street 18
- 2 Joining up the dots 34
- 3 The men they couldn’t hang 49
- 4 Cato Street in international perspective 64
- 5 Cato Street and the Caribbean 81
- 6 Cato Street and the Spencean politics of transnational insurrection 101
- 7 State witnesses and spies in Irish political trials, 1794–1803 118
- 8 The shadow of the Pikeman 135
- 9 The fate of the transported Cato Street conspirators 153
- 10 Scripted by whom? 169
- Afterword 186
- Index 193
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vii
- Notes on contributors viii
- Abbreviations xi
- Introduction ‘We only have to be lucky once’ 1
- 1 When did they know? The cabinet, informers and Cato Street 18
- 2 Joining up the dots 34
- 3 The men they couldn’t hang 49
- 4 Cato Street in international perspective 64
- 5 Cato Street and the Caribbean 81
- 6 Cato Street and the Spencean politics of transnational insurrection 101
- 7 State witnesses and spies in Irish political trials, 1794–1803 118
- 8 The shadow of the Pikeman 135
- 9 The fate of the transported Cato Street conspirators 153
- 10 Scripted by whom? 169
- Afterword 186
- Index 193
