... surprised at their wrath;they are to be banished from the land which their fathers held, to beturned adrift to seek a new method of life, to be pulled down from theirposition as men of property, and ... number of the newlyarrived knobsticks, Irish and English, demurred from interfering: of the people that one firm had recruited from the Belfast workhouse, forexample, more than two-thirds returned ... on the railways, where Irish navvies were prominent from the s onwards.’’²⁹ But in the Preston strike, fear of violence ema-nated largely from the millowners themselves, who at one point had...