Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above : Portrait Of John Blake Dillon The summer of 1879 had teen cold and wet. Most of the crops were extremely poor, and the potato crop practically a total failure. This, of course, meant for the rural population of a great part of Ireland nothing short of famine. Amongst the despairing peasantry, the advice [...]

Above : Photo Of John Sadleir As the new league therefore, scarcely at all diminished the grievances under w h the people suffered, the discontent continued to grow, and soon an outcry arose all over the country against the injustice of the Land over was accompanied by an insistent demand for their alteration. In the [...]