Irish history

1870- Gladstones 1st Land Act:

• Compensation made to tenants for making improvements to their land
• BRIGHT CLAUSES- 5% interest, tenants allowed to borrow up to 2/3rds of price
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FAILS:

• lacked prevention against EVICTION
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• landlords would change leases so they didn't agree with the Land Act (leases for more than 31 years not preotected by act)
• Few farmers took advantage of Bright Clauses- too poor
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SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE:

• SYMBOLLIC- gov. intervention in the Irish Land Issue

1879- The Irish National Land League & Michael Davitt:

• MD= his family was evicted
• interested in radical Irish politics- joined IRB
• involved in 1867 Chester Castle raid
• imprisoned in Dartmoor after convicted gun running
• set up- NATIONAL LAND LEAGUE

National Land League---- AIM:

• wanted the REDISTRIBUTION of land and the best means was no violence

1879/80: Land War in Ireland- TACTICS:

• Rally all elements of the nationalist movement
• posters, campaign rallies and slogans also with the implicit threat of violence
• Parnell suggested= withold rents and farms where evictions took place were left empty
• Those LANDLORDS who continued to evict were at best ignored at worst subjected to violence and even assassinations= LORD MOUNTMORRES
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1880: BOYCOTTING

• Captain Boycott= English Landlord
• served notices to tenants on Lord Erne's estate
• Local community= encouraged all of his servants and workers to leave
• RESULT= orangemen volunteered to help harvest, Boycott and family left Ireland