The Irish Land and Labour Association was a progressive movement founded in the early 1890s in Munster, Ireland, to organise and pursue political agitation for small tenant farmers' and rural labourer
Mass rally of tenant farmers and labourers demonstrating under ILLA banners, Market Square, Macroom, County Cork, around 1894
Land War manifesto
Image of one of Ireland's oldest and still active Trades Union halls in Kanturk erected 1881.
Plaque on wall of Kanturk Union Hall
D. D. Sheehan
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Daniel Desmond Sheehan, usually known as D. D. Sheehan was an Irish nationalist, politician, labour leader, journalist, barrister and author. He served as Member of Parliament in the House of Commons
Irish Land and Labour Association
…organisation was later the Kanturk Trade and Labour Association established in 1889 with the assistance amongst others, of a young man as its secretary, D. D. Sheehan who had experienced eviction with his family at the height of the Land League's Land War in 1880, when his father followed William O'Brien's "Pay No…
D. D. Sheehan MP
D. D. Sheehan MP (standing centre balcony), addressing large All-for-Ireland League rally in 1910 at Newmarket, County Cork.
Sheehan MP (r), 1907, commanding the platform at a North County Dublin Land and Labour meeting.
A Tower Model Village "Sheehans' cottage"