Land War

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The Land War was a late 19th-century Irish agrarian agitation campaign marked by tenant resistance, rent strikes, and boycotts aimed at securing fair rents and land ownership from British landlords.

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Land War canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf agrarian agitation campaign
political campaign
social movement
tenant rights movement
aimedAt fair rents
fixity of tenure
free sale of tenant interest
land ownership for Irish tenants
peasant proprietorship
country Ireland
endTime early 1890s
field Irish nationalism
agrarian politics
hasCause agrarian distress
economic depression of the late 1870s
high rents
landlordism in Ireland
potato crop failures in the 1870s
tenant insecurity of tenure
hasEffect expansion of tenant rights
growth of peasant proprietorship in Ireland
popularization of the term "boycott"
weakening of landlordism in Ireland
hasGenre agrarian conflict
influenced Ashbourne Land Act 1885
linked to: Ashbourne Act 1885

Irish Land Acts of the 1880s
linked to: Irish Land Acts

Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881
Wyndham Land Purchase Act 1903
keyPerson Charles Stewart Parnell
John Dillon
Michael Davitt
William O'Brien
languageOfWorkOrName English
location Connacht
Munster
rural Ireland
western Ireland
linked to: Western Ireland
opponent British Government
linked to: UK government

Irish landlord class
Royal Irish Constabulary
opposedTo British landlords in Ireland
organizedBy Irish National Land League
linked to: Irish Land League

local land leagues
participant Catholic clergy
Irish Nationalist politicians
Irish tenant farmers
rural labourers
smallholders
partOf history of Ireland under British rule
relatedTo Irish Home Rule movement
Irish Question
linked to: The Irish Question
significantEvent Boycott of Captain Charles Boycott
Kilmainham Treaty of 1882
formation of the Irish National Land League in 1879
startTime 1879
temporalCoverage late 19th century
usedMethod boycotts
legal test cases
mass meetings
public agitation
rent strikes
social ostracism

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