Land Acts (Ireland)
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The Land Acts were a series of measures to deal with the question of tenancy contracts and peasant proprietorship of land in Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Five such acts were intr
Original 1906 Labourers' Act cottage, as seen in 1977
Michael Davitt
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Michael Davitt was an Irish republican activist for a variety of causes, especially Home Rule and land reform. Following an eviction when he was four years old, Davitt's family migrated to England. He
Lazybeds for potato cultivation, County Mayo
Land League poster from the No Rent Manifesto period
Portrait of Davitt by Napoleon Sarony, holding Land League sign
Portrait of Davitt by William Orpen, c. 1906