Talk:Whiteboys
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[edit] Additional Source
I added a tiny bit of information cited in Peter Way, Common Labor: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals 1780-1860. His original source was Michael Beame, Peasants and Power: the Whiteboy Movements and their Control in Pre-Famine Ireland. I assume this latter book would be a great place to start if anyone is really interested in expanding this stub. --Brian Z 17:24, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] MA Thesis (Univ of Essex, 1979)
I researched the Whiteboys in 1978-79 and prepared an MA thesis on them while at the Unversity of Essex. I have added (and will continue to add) substantial chunks of the thesis to this article. The research came from articles in local newspapers, English monthlies of the period, and primary materials held in the Belfast and Dublin libraries as well as the British Library and the Public Records Office. I did not include footnotes because it would be too cumbersome, but if you're interested you can contact me at war@gusrichardson.com. -- W. Augustus (Gus) Richardson.
