Depth study 4 The Irish Land Issue 1870-81 #2

1. An Irish Fenian who was the driving force behind the administration and organisation of the Land League and its activity (7, 6)
5. Gladstone's Irish Secretary who, like Gladstone, was sympathetic to the plight of Ireland’s tenant farmers during the depression of the late 1870’s; he saw it as something that needs to be rectified. (7)
7. A period of agrarian unrest in Ireland where the resentment and action of tenants against GB government and landlordism climaxed (4, 4)

2. An example of violence used by the tenants showing evidence of festering discontent. This landlord was murdered. (4, 11)
3. Key individual who encouraged Davitt and Parnell to combine forces and establish the ‘new departure’ – the idea that the land question could only be adequately answered by an Irish government (4, 5)
4. Body established in October 1879, that provided the tenants with direction; became a nationwide body that publicized the agrarian cause and coordinated the opposition efforts (5, 4, 6)
6. A tactic used by the tenants that involved abstaining from the land so it was not used, causing landlords to lose out (10)
8. The amount of £ that the US gave to the Land League to help them coordinate tenant action (6, 8)
9. The number of families that were being evicted per year by 1880 due to slipping into arrears (3, 8)

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