The Irish Land War seen through rare photographs, 1880-1900

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When the Irish talk about the “Land War,” they have in mind either three phases of anti-landlord agitation in the late nineteenth century, or, more narrowly, the first of these phases, which lasted from 18979 until 1882. The movement emerged during a severe agricultural depression caused by crop failures and a sluggish market for farm […]