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<p> A secret Irish organisation that at the beginning of [[George]] III.'s reign asserted their grievances by perpetrating agrarian outrages; so called from the white smocks the members wore in their nightly raids. </p> | <p> A secret Irish organisation that at the beginning of [[George]] III.'s reign asserted their grievances by perpetrating agrarian outrages; so called from the white smocks the members wore in their nightly raids. </p> | ||