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The Whiteboys (Irish: na Buachaillí Bána) were a secret Irish agrarian organisation in 18th-century Ireland which defended tenant-farmer land-rights for subsistence farming. Their name derives from the white smocks that members wore in their nighttime raids.
Oct 7, 2022 · The Whiteboys sought to address rack-rents, tithe collection, excessive priests' dues, evictions, and other oppressive acts by landowners. Landlords and tithe...
Whiteboys and WhiteboyismThe Whiteboys were agrarian rebels based in Munster and south Leinster who engaged in two major struggles in the mid-eighteenth century with local gentry, Church of Ireland clergy, and other enemies.
Sep 10, 1999 · Danny Hoch is the irrepressible Flip, the hip-hop poet of his own white boy crew. The son of a working class Iowa family, Flip just wants "to keep it real." In his mind that means moving into the Chicago ghetto to live and write million-dollar rap hits like his heroes.
- Marc Levin
- Danny Hoch
Oct 8, 1999 · Whiteboyz: Directed by Marc Levin. With Danny Hoch, Dash Mihok, Mark Webber, Piper Perabo. In Flip's path towards "keeping it real" by becoming hip-hop star, harsh realities surface to shake up his world.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Marc Levin
- 1999-10-08
May 17, 2018 · Whiteboys was the name adopted by agrarian rebels in Ireland from 1761 onwards. The immediate cause of the outrages seems to have been the enclosure of common land for pasture, but grievances soon included tithes and extortionate leases.
A brief examination of the causes of the agrarian outrages perpetrated by the Whiteboys in Eighteenth Century Ireland, taken from An Illustrated History of Ireland, 1868.
