In 1880, during the Irish Land War, Boycott worked for Lord Erne, a landowner in County Mayo. The Land War involved Irish tenant farmers seeking fair rents and security of tenure, and was part of ...

They were the tenants of Colonel John O’Callaghan, who would become notorious by the end of the Land War. The Second Irish Land Act of 1881 had attempted to give tenants more security by paving ...

Well, the Irish Land Purchase bill has been subjected to that test, and has triumphantly passed it. Ever since the provisions of the bill were made public it is fair to suppose that every tenant ...

Ireland is bogged down in a generation war between the young and the old, and the battleground is land, housing and rents. Is it any surprise that the young intend to vote in large numbers for ...

According to Prof Dooley, the Irish revolution went hand-in-hand with land poverty. During the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, 300 country houses were burnt in the Irish Free ...

The destruction of country houses in the Irish revolution can be seen as the last stage of a long Land War. By Roy Foster “The roads in unnatural dusk ran dark with movement, secretive or terrified; ...