Brian Griffin
The Bulkies
Police and Crime in Belfast 1[zasłonięte]800-18
Dublin 1998
Stron XI+166, format: 16x24 cm
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Contents
PREFACE V
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
ABBREVIATIONS xi
1 The police in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Ireland 1
2 The early years: 1[zasłonięte]800-18 8
The 1800 police act 8
The 1812 voluntary watch 11
The 1816 voluntary watch 14
3 The policeman's lot: duties and remuneration 18
Duties in 1816 18
Duties down to 1865 23
Development of the day police 24
Supernumeraries 26
Tenure and pay 27
Uniforms 29
Rewards 30
Night work and day work 32
Sick pay, pensions and gratuities 34
4 Discipline 40
The role of the police board and the town council 40
Immorality and corruption 46
Neglect of duty 49
Attempts to tighten discipline 50 Drunkenness, sleeping on duty, absence without leave 53
Other offences 57
5 Crime in Belfast, 1[zasłonięte]816-18 59
Introduction 59
Vagrants 60
Prostitution and associated crime 61
Juvenile crime 68
Other crime 78
Repeat offenders 83
6 Police response to Belfast's growth 89
Introduction 89
The growth of Belfast 89
The Irish Constabulary in Belfast 91 'Bulky' responses to Belfast's growth: plain-clothes and
detective policemen 94
7 The police and the public 98
Introduction 98
Carmen 99
Publicans and drinkers 100 Popular pastimes: children's games and adult
celebrations 103
Popular pastimes: blood sports 104
Popular pastimes: prize fights 108
Public resentment of the police 109
8 The Belfast police and the sectarian problem 116
9 The Bulkies depart: enter the Peelers 135
The end of the Bulkies 135
The constabulary take over 139
APPENDIXES
1 Extracts from Instructions to the Belfast police force, 1856 143
2 Extracts from Belfast borough police day book,
1[zasłonięte]860-18 145
Bibliography 149
Index 157
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