Changing Land

Changing Land
Author: Niall Whelehan
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1479809624

How diaspora activism in the Irish land movement intersected with wider radical and reform causes The Irish Land War represented a turning point in modern Irish history, a social revolution that was part of a broader ideological moment when established ideas of property and land ownership were fundamentally challenged. The Land War was striking in its internationalism, and was spurred by links between different emigrant locations and an awareness of how the Land League’s demands to lower rents, end evictions, and abolish “landlordism” in Ireland connected with wider radical and reform causes. Changing Land offers a new and original study of Irish emigrants’ activism in the United States, Argentina, Scotland, and England and their multifaceted relationships with Ireland. Niall Whelehan brings unfamiliar figures to the surface and recovers the voices of women and men who have been on the margins of, or entirely missing from, existing accounts. Retracing their transnational lives reveals new layers of radical circuitry between Ireland and disparate international locations, and demonstrates how the land movement overlapped with different types of oppositional politics from moderate reform to feminism to revolutionary anarchism. By including Argentina, which was home to the largest Irish community outside the English-speaking world, this book addresses the neglect of developments in non-Anglophone places in studies of the “Irish world.” Changing Land presents a powerful addition to our understanding of the history of modern Ireland and the Irish diaspora, migration, and the history of transnational radicalism.

Social Origins of the Irish Land War

Social Origins of the Irish Land War
Author: Samuel Clark
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400853524

Arguing that social movements can be explained and understood only in a comparative historical perspective and not in terms of immediate social or political conditions, the author identifies the causes of the Land War in the evolution of social structure and collective action in the Irish countryside over the course of the nineteenth century. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Land and Popular Politics in Ireland

Land and Popular Politics in Ireland
Author: Donald E. Jordan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521466837

A study of the Irish county of Mayo, from Elizabethan times to the late nineteenth century.

The Long Land War

The Long Land War
Author: Jo Guldi
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0300264860

A definitive history of ideas about land redistribution, allied political movements, and their varied consequences around the world “An epic work of breathtaking scope and moral power, The Long Land War offers the definitive account of the rise and fall of land rights around the world over the last 150 years.” —Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Jo Guldi tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Land is shown to be a central motor of politics in the twentieth century: the basis of movements for giving reparations to formerly colonized people, protests to limit the rent paid by urban tenants, intellectual battles among development analysts, and the capture of land by squatters taking matters into their own hands. The book describes the results of state-engineered “land reform” policies beginning in Ireland in 1881 until U.S.-led interests and the World Bank effectively killed them off in 1974. The Long Land War provides a definitive narrative of land redistribution alongside an unflinching critique of its failures, set against the background of the rise and fall of nationalism, communism, internationalism, information technology, and free-market economics. In considering how we could make the earth livable for all, she works out the important relationship between property ownership and justice on a changing planet.

A Murderer's Country

A Murderer's Country
Author: Mary Simonsen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2017-06-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692910610

The Land War (1879-1882) was a time of great agitation in Ireland, much of it directed against Irish landlords and the British Crown. Violence associated with the land-reform movement, led by Michael Davitt and Charles Stewart Parnell, and the implementation of boycotting and its enforced compliance, became commonplace. A harbinger of the violence in Galway was the assassination of Lord Leitrim in County Donegal. But some of the worst outrages took place in Joyce Country, in the heart of County Galway. During the three years of the Land War, Lord Mountmorres of Ebor Hall, Joseph Huddy, bailiff to Arthur Guinness of Ashford Castle, and his grandson, John Huddy, and five members of the Maamtrasna Joyce family were all murdered in Galway, a place that became known as "A Murderer's Country."

Everyday Violence in the Irish Civil War

Everyday Violence in the Irish Civil War
Author: Gemma Clark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2014-04-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139916505

Everyday Violence in the Irish Civil War presents an innovative study of violence perpetrated by and against non-combatants during the Irish Civil War, 1922–3. Drawing from victim accounts of wartime injury as recorded in compensation claims, Dr Gemma Clark sheds new light on hundreds of previously neglected episodes of violence and intimidation - ranging from arson, boycott and animal maiming to assault, murder and sexual violence - that transpired amongst soldiers, civilians and revolutionaries throughout the period of conflict. The author shows us how these micro-level acts, particularly in the counties of Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford, served as an attempt to persecute and purge religious and political minorities, and to force redistribution of land. Clark also assesses the international significance of the war, comparing the cruel yet arguably restrained violence that occurred in Ireland with the brutality unleashed in other European conflict zones.

Land War and Eviction in Derryveagh, 1840-65

Land War and Eviction in Derryveagh, 1840-65
Author: Liam Dolan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1980
Genre: Derryveagh (Donegal)
ISBN:

The Derryveagh Evictions, more popularly known by their misnomer, the Glenveagh Evictions, could be the story of any part of rural Ireland in the post-famine period. That they occurred on the scale that they did and at that particular point in time is at once easily understood, because, just as the corriter's potatoes were blighted, so also were the fortunes of many a landlord who then fell prey to the 'land jobbers'. The tenantry may have bewailed their plight during pre-famine days but theirs was to be the unenviable future of rack-renting, insecurity and eviction at the hands of a new aspiring landowning class that stalked the Incumbered Estates Courts seeking easy and quick fortunes. The Derryveagh Evictions were one of the more harrowing episodes of this period. -- Publisher description