The planters of Luggacurran, County Laois

A Protestant community, 1879–1927

Leigh-Ann Coffey

'Approachable and of interest to non-academic reader',’ Geoff Doyle, Family and Community History.

'The author’s nuanced analysis shows that to simply label these attacks sectarian does little to explain the complex motives behind them, where events which occurred during the plan of campaign during the late 1880s and 1890s continued to influence the social and political character of the area well into the twentieth century', Conor McNamara, Irish Economic and Social History (2007).

‘This volume is one of six books published in the Maynooth Studies in Local History Series in 2006 … These short books … have made an important contribution to the study of local history in Ireland. This book by Leigh-Ann Coffey continues that fine tradition … The achievement of this book is that Leigh-Ann Coffey does not study this violence which erupted County Laois in the early months of 1922 in isolation. Rather she takes a broader view and situates these local events against the background of a period of almost fifty years of Irish history … This is a fine study of local agrarian violence. It not only gives insights into the events at Luggacurran but also suggests ways in how other local historians might approach similar topics … [A]n important and well executed local study’, Liam Kelly, Breifne: The Journal of the Cavan Historical Society (2006).