The Depiction of Eviction in Ireland 1845-1910

by Curtis, L. Perry, Jr.

• ISBN13: 9781906359584
• ISBN10: 190635958X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-15
• Publisher: Univ College Dublin Pr

Summary

Dispossession has a long and tortuous history in Ireland, from the Victorian era when evictions were a major social, cultural, and political event; to their dramatic decline after the mid-1850s; and their zenith of media attention and political import in the 1880s, when the Irish National Land League was founded. Drawing on memoirs, ballads, poems, folklore, and novels as well as providing numerous illustrations of contemporary prints and photographs, Curtis provides the first book-length study of rural evictions over a period of sixty years. L. Perry Curtis, Jr, whose books include Coercion and Conciliation in Ireland (1963), retired in 2001 from the Departments of History, Modern Culture, and Media at Brown University. He now lives in Vermont.

Author Biography

L. Perry Curtis, Jr, whose books include Coercion and Conciliation in Ireland (1963) and Apes and Angels (1971, 1997), retired from the Departments of History and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University in 2001 and now lives in Vermont.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Dispossession and Irish Land Laws	p. 8
The Famine Evictions	p. 27
Interlude, 1855-78	p. 57
The First Land War, 1879-83	p. 81
The Second Land War, 1886-90	p. 130
The Plan Evictions, 1887-90	p. 159
Resistance, 1886-9	p. 194
The Battering Ram, 1887-90	p. 224
Falcarragh: The Olphert Estate, 1888-90	p. 254
Plus Ça Change, 1890-1900	p. 277
The Third Land War, 1900-10	p. 294
Epilogue: The Land Quest	p. 315
Notes	p. 325
Select Bibliography	p. 367
Index	p. 377
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