Research Catalog

Title

Defying the law of the land : agrarian radicals in Irish history / edited by Brian Casey ; foreword by Carla King.

Publication

Dublin : The History Press Ltd, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Casey, Brian.
• King, Carla.
• Casey, Brian, 1983-

Description

320 pages : illustrations, some of which are color; 24 cm

Summary

This history of Ireland is inextricably linked with our relationship with the land. In this book, based on extensive research and investigation, the authors examine some of the key figures in Irish agrarian agitation and change. Looking at the Land League, the Knights of the Plough, the perception and reality of the Irish Landlords, this is an important book which makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the nature of the 'land question' in Irish history--

Subject

• Peasant uprisings > Ireland > History
• Peasants > History. > Ireland
• Land tenure > Ireland > History
• Land reform > Ireland > History
• Ireland > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Demonising the Irish landlords since the famine / L. Perry Curtis, Jr -- Narrating the Irish famine: Chartism, the land and fiction / Timothy Keane -- Rural radicals or mercenary men? Resistance to evictions on the Glinsk/Creggs Estate of Allan Pollok / Pauline Scott -- Matt Harris and the Ballinasloe Tenant Defence Association, 1876-9 / Brian Casey -- Thomas Stanislaus Cleary (1851-98): Land League leader and campaigning newspaper editor / Oisín Moran -- 'A few good canons?': Canon Ulick Bourke and clerical reactions to the outbreak of the Land War / Shane Faherty -- Redressing historical imbalance: the role of grassroots leaders Richard Hodnett and Henry O'Mahony in the Land League revolution in the West Cork, 1879-82 / Frank Rynne -- Canon Yeller of Youghal / Felix M. Larkin -- A 'First Voice': Henry Villiers Stuart (1827-95) and the cause of the Irish agricultural labourers / Ian d'Alton -- Benjamin Pelin, the Knights of the Plough and social radicalism, 1852-1934 / Fintan Lane -- John Fitzgibbon of Castlerea: 'A Most Mischievous and Dangerous Agitator' / John Bligh -- Daniel Desmond (D.D.) Sheehan (1873-1948) and the rural question in Cork, 1894-1910 / John O'Donovan -- Pádraic Ó Máille: Irish agrarian radical? The case considered / Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh.

ISBN

• 1845888014
• 9781845888015

OCLC

834962234

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library