Land War

Um, and e- even fr- from, from that point of view, you get a sense of these larger ambitions, and those larger ambitions are not really in place in Ireland at that stage yet.

Um, and, you know, because in Ireland, remember, the Land War is still in its height, 1870s into the 1880s.

You're then moving into, um, the, the fight for home rule, and what is the key development there is the new departure, um, which some of us might remember from school, where you had the agrarian Michael Davitt, you, or Michael Davitt.

You had John Devoy in the States of Clan na Gael, and then you had, uh, Parnell himself.

You had, um, Michael Davitt, the agrarian leader.

You had Parnell then, who's the leader of home rule, and hoping to achieve home rule through constitutional means.

And the three groups come together, um, and really launch the, the Land War, fund the Land War in a very successful way, and County Clare was one of the most intense and dramatic flashpoints in the Land or in the Land War during kind of the 1870s into the, or into the early 1880s.

Um, and one of the key s- speeches there was Parnell's own speech, uh, in September 1880, um, when he talks about...

Pages, uh, twenty-five to twenty-seven.

The Tale of a Great Shame, The Irish Land War and Ladies' Land League by Jack Guillen.

From 1879 to 1882, Ireland was gripped by a mass redu- radical movement which sought to organize tenant farmers in a fight against exorbitant rents and oppressive British laws.

The Irish Land League organized thousands of tenant farmers and other members in refusing rent payments, obstructing eviction attempts, and financially supporting tenants.

The Land War, as it came to be known, was also home to the most significant women's political organizing in, uh, nineteenth-century Ireland.

Women were heavily involved from the l- uh, league's beginning, participating in some of the more direct and violent early obstructions against eviction attempts.

Its women members, people like Anna Parnell, also found themselves on the movement's more radical wing.

She never saw her book published.