Land War
Videos
The Land War was a period of agrarian agitation in rural Ireland that began in 1879. It may refer specifically to the first and most intense period of agitation between 1879 and 1882, or include later
An Irish family in Moyasta, County Clare being evicted c. 1879
Irish landlord reduced to begging for rent, 1880 caricature
Land League poster from the No Rent Manifesto period
Eviction in Woodford, County Galway, in 1888, during the Plan of Campaign
Land Acts (Ireland)
Videos
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