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Terry Alt, Terryalt Irish Hist.|ˈtɛrɪ ɔːlt|
Also ellipt. Terry.
[According to a MS. diary of 1831 quoted in Times Lit. Suppl. (1932) 29 Sept. 691/4, Terry Alts was the name of an innocent bystander suspected of an outrage on a man.]
A member of a secret agrarian association active in western Ireland in the 1830s. Also attrib.
1831D. O'Connell Let. 15 May (1888) I. 263 It is probable that, without the aid of the ‘Terry Alt’ system, he could not poll one hundred votes by all his other exertions. 1931Dublin Even. Post 31 May 3/3 Michael Connelly, a chief leader of the Terry Alts.
1832Courier 17 Feb. 2/5 The Terries in the County of Galway are levying contributions. 1861W. J. Fitzpatrick Life Dr. Doyle II. xxxix. 334 He urged the ‘Shanavests’, the ‘Caravats’, the ‘Terryalts’, and the ‘Rockites’, to abandon their deeds of blood; he implored of the Ribbonmen to cast their evil combinations to the winds. 1898Westm. Gaz. 14 Nov. 4/2 The man was suspected of being a ‘Terry Alt’, or a member of a local agrarian conspiracy. |