Article: Melancholy Accidents: The Meaning of Violence in Post-Famine Ireland. (Reviews).

Melancholy Accidents: The Meaning of Violence in Post-Famine Ireland. By Carolyn A. Conley (New York & Oxford: Lexington Books, 1999. xii plus 249pp. $40.00).

The historical study of crime in Ireland has been generally limited to activities which were perceived as threatening to the political order nationally or to the local social order. Carolyn Conley is the first historian of Irish crime to include in her study what Belfast residents call "ordinary decent criminals." For the period 1866--92 she has surveyed some 5,000 cases documented in criminal court records which survived the destruction of the Public Record Office during the Civil War: complete runs for ...

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