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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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 NERFINISHED
cause absence of tenant ownership
agricultural crisis
economic depression of the late 1870s
high rents
land evictions
potato crop failures
country Ireland NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
No Rent Manifesto NERFINISHED
Plan of Campaign NERFINISHED
influenced Ashbourne Act 1885 NERFINISHED
Irish Home Rule movement NERFINISHED
Irish Land Acts NERFINISHED
Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881 NERFINISHED
Wyndham Land Purchase Act 1903 NERFINISHED
later agrarian movements in Ireland
location Ireland NERFINISHED
mainSubject land reform in Ireland
landlordism
tenant farmers
opposedBy British Conservative governments NERFINISHED
Irish landlords
law-and-order organizations in Ireland
participant British Government NERFINISHED
Catholic clergy in Ireland
Charles Stewart Parnell NERFINISHED
Fenian movement NERFINISHED
Irish National Land League NERFINISHED
Irish landlords
Irish tenant farmers
Michael Davitt NERFINISHED
Royal Irish Constabulary NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
Parnell’s Westport speech of 1879 NERFINISHED
Phoenix Park Murders of 1882 NERFINISHED
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 Irish Land War
this entity surface form: Land War in County Cork