The radical rising : the Scottish insurrection of 1820 / Peter Berresford Ellis and Seumas Mac a' Ghobhainn ; preface by P. Berresford Ellis ; foreword by Hugh MacDiarmid.

Author: Ellis, Peter Berresford, author.

ImprintEdinburgh : Birlinn, 2016.

Descriptionxxiv, 408 pages : map ; 20 cm

Note:Revised edition of The Scottish insurrection of 1820, 1970.

Note:Preface to the 1989 edition -- Preface to the 2001 edition -- Foreword / Hugh MacDiarmid -- 1. Insurrection! -- 2.The Union -- 3. Scottish republicanism -- 4. The United Sxcotsmen -- 5. The growth of radicalism -- 6. Richmond: the spy -- 7. The Paisley riots -- 8. Plans for the Rising -- 9. 'Liberty of death!" -- 10. The Battle of Bonnymuir -- 11. The rising in Strathaven -- 12. The Greenock affair -- 13. 'Perfect tranquillity' -- 14. 'Oyer and Terminer' -- 15. The trials -- 16. 'This mummery of a trial' -- 17. 'Murder! Murder! Murder!' -- 18. 'Revolution or tyranny?' Appendices 1: The letters of John Baird and Andrew Hardie from Edinburgh and Stirling Castle ; 2: Alleged declarations of James Wlosn in the Death Cell ; 3: Songs of the 1820 Rising).

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-391) and index.

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