Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above : Photo Of Young Michael Davitt Foundation of the Land League.— In 1846, there was born to a small farmer named Davitt in Straide Co. Mayo, a son destined to play a leading part in the history of the Irish Land Agitation during the closing decades of the nineteenth century and the first years [...]

Above : Photo Of John Russell, Prime Minister At The Time The famine had aggravated the land troubles, and evictions with all their attendant misery were terribly frequent. Much of this was due to the wanton greed of men who wished to re-let at higher rents the land whose value the toil of the poor [...]