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Rockite Now only Hist.|ˈrɒkaɪt|
[f. the assumed name Captain Rock.]
A member of an Irish organization associated with agrarian disorders in the earlier part of the nineteenth century. Also ˈRockism.
1828Blackw. Mag. Dec. 757/1 Every night he could see houses in the distance burning round about him, the work of the incendiary Rockites. 1830Times 6 Nov. 3/6 There is little doubt that distress and desperation form the mystery, and that a kind of English Rockism is in operation. 1831Lincoln Herald 27 May, A band of Rockites attacked the residence of a magistrate in the county of Clare. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. I. ii. ix. 375 Rockism and Whiteboyism are the determination of a people, who have nothing that can be called theirs but a daily meal.., not to submit to being deprived of that for other people's convenience. 1880W. J. Fitzpatrick Life Doyle II. 333 He urged..the ‘Rockites’ and the Ribbonmen to cast their evil combinations to the winds. 1949C. Graves Ireland Revisited viii. 101 The Rockites, hidden among the cliffs and intending to trap the Bantry party, revealed their presence.
attrib.1832Lincoln Herald 14 Feb. 2/6 A Rockite notice..was served in the most populous part of the town of Longford..on Saturday evening. |