ABSTRACT
After briefly summarising the book, the conclusion will place the Rockite disturbances in long-term contexts. A focus will be on the relationship between the central administration and the local authorities concerning rural disturbances since the eighteenth century. Also, it will be shown that even after the suppression of the Rockites and the surge of Daniel O’Connell’s constitutional mass movement, the world of the Rockites did not disappear and the tradition of Captain survived in rural Ireland well into the late nineteenth century.
