Ribbonismn.

1820 Glasgow Herald 10 Mar. 1/4 It is with pain we have to mention that Ribbonism has begun to rear its head in the co. Westmeath.

1820 Monthly Extracts Corr. Brit. & Foreign Bible Soc. 31 May 7/2 One of the copies of the Irish Scriptures came into the hands of one connected with eight other ribbon-men... They became interested in it, and the happy effects were that they all renounced their attachment to ribbonism.

1828 Marquis of Anglesey Let. 31 Mar. in R. Peel Mem. (1856) I. 34 Ribbonism is extending.

1857 Parl. Papers XXVI. 10 The Orange Society was a protective society against Ribbonism and other secret societies amongst the Roman Catholics.

1869 Daily News 13 Dec. The Roman Catholic farmers and labourers who have not yet joined the ranks of Ribbonism.

1928 Times 30 Nov. 23/3 The economic and social catastrophe of the Great Famine had stunned the people, and in spite of Young Irelandism and Ribbonism the country was outwardly calm.

1951 H. Pearson Dizzy xxi. 226 Ribbonism, a secret movement in Ireland, so named from the green badge worn by its members, its object being to prevent landlords from evicting tenants whatever the circumstances and to prevent tenants on pain of death from taking land wherefrom others had been evicted.

2001 Jrnl. Brit. Stud. 40 382 The ideological conflict between Ribbonism and the Catholic Church epitomized the fundamental tension between Catholic protectors and Irish nationalists.