Irish Land War

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The Irish Land War was a late 19th-century agrarian agitation in Ireland marked by tenant resistance, mass protests, and political campaigns to end landlordism and secure fair rents and land ownership for Irish farmers.

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Label Occurrences
Irish Land War canonical 9
Land War in Ireland 4
Land War in County Cork 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf agrarian conflict
political campaign
social movement
tenant-rights movement
alsoKnownAs Land War
cause absence of tenant ownership
agricultural crisis
economic depression of the late 1870s
high rents
land evictions
potato crop failures
country Ireland
endTime c. 1892
goal end of landlordism in Ireland
fair rents
fixity of tenure
free sale of tenant interest
peasant proprietorship
security of land ownership for Irish farmers
hasEffectOn British land policy in Ireland
rural social relations in Ireland
hasPart Boycott campaign
New Departure
No Rent Manifesto
Plan of Campaign
influenced Ashbourne Act 1885
Irish Home Rule movement
Irish Land Acts
Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881
Wyndham Land Purchase Act 1903
later agrarian movements in Ireland
location Ireland
mainSubject land reform in Ireland
landlordism
tenant farmers
opposedBy British Conservative governments
Irish landlords
law-and-order organizations in Ireland
participant British Government
linked to: UK government

Catholic clergy in Ireland
Charles Stewart Parnell
Fenian movement
Irish National Land League
linked to: Irish Land League

Irish landlords
Irish tenant farmers
Michael Davitt
Royal Irish Constabulary
partOf Irish nationalist movement
history of Ireland under British rule
result expansion of tenant rights
growth of peasant proprietorship
politicization of rural Ireland
reduction of landlord power in Ireland
strengthening of Irish nationalism
significantEvent Kilmainham Treaty of 1882
Parnell’s Westport speech of 1879
Phoenix Park Murders of 1882
founding of the Irish National Land League in 1879
issuance of the No Rent Manifesto in 1881
launch of the Plan of Campaign in 1886
startTime 1879
temporalContext late 19th century
usedMethod boycotts
land-grabbing prevention
legal agitation
mass meetings
parliamentary obstruction
public speeches
rent strikes
resistance to evictions
social ostracism

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Irish Catholics involvedIn Irish Land War
History of County Cork includesEvent Land War in County Cork
linked to: Irish Land War
Irish nationalism hasKeyEvent Irish Land War
Irish Land Acts relatedTo Irish Land War
Phoenix Park Murders chronologicallyFollows Land War in Ireland
linked to: Irish Land War
Irish National Invincibles historicalPeriod Land War in Ireland
linked to: Irish Land War
Irish National League movement Irish Land War
The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland mainSubject Land War in Ireland
linked to: Irish Land War
Coercion Act 1881 historicalContext Irish Land War
Phoenix Park murders politicalContext Land War in Ireland
subject linked to: Phoenix Park murders 1882
linked to: Irish Land War
Anna Parnell movement Irish Land War