Land War

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The Land War was a late 19th-century Irish agrarian agitation campaign marked by tenant resistance, rent strikes, and boycotts aimed at securing fair rents and land ownership from British landlords.

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Land War canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf agrarian agitation campaign ⓘ
political campaign ⓘ
social movement ⓘ
tenant rights movement ⓘ
aimedAt fair rents ⓘ
fixity of tenure ⓘ
free sale of tenant interest ⓘ
land ownership for Irish tenants ⓘ
peasant proprietorship ⓘ
country Ireland ⓘ
endTime early 1890s ⓘ
field Irish nationalism ⓘ
agrarian politics ⓘ
hasCause agrarian distress ⓘ
economic depression of the late 1870s ⓘ
high rents ⓘ
landlordism in Ireland ⓘ
potato crop failures in the 1870s ⓘ
tenant insecurity of tenure ⓘ
hasEffect expansion of tenant rights ⓘ
growth of peasant proprietorship in Ireland ⓘ
popularization of the term "boycott" ⓘ
weakening of landlordism in Ireland ⓘ
hasGenre agrarian conflict ⓘ
influenced Ashbourne Land Act 1885 ⓘ
linked to: Ashbourne Act 1885

Irish Land Acts of the 1880s ⓘ
linked to: Irish Land Acts

Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881 ⓘ
Wyndham Land Purchase Act 1903 ⓘ
keyPerson Charles Stewart Parnell ⓘ
John Dillon ⓘ
Michael Davitt ⓘ
William O'Brien ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName English ⓘ
location Connacht ⓘ
Munster ⓘ
rural Ireland ⓘ
western Ireland ⓘ
linked to: Western Ireland
opponent British Government ⓘ
linked to: UK government

Irish landlord class ⓘ
Royal Irish Constabulary ⓘ
opposedTo British landlords in Ireland ⓘ
organizedBy Irish National Land League ⓘ
linked to: Irish Land League

local land leagues ⓘ
participant Catholic clergy ⓘ
Irish Nationalist politicians ⓘ
Irish tenant farmers ⓘ
rural labourers ⓘ
smallholders ⓘ
partOf history of Ireland under British rule ⓘ
relatedTo Irish Home Rule movement ⓘ
Irish Question ⓘ
linked to: The Irish Question
significantEvent Boycott of Captain Charles Boycott ⓘ
Kilmainham Treaty of 1882 ⓘ
formation of the Irish National Land League in 1879 ⓘ
startTime 1879 ⓘ
temporalCoverage late 19th century ⓘ
usedMethod boycotts ⓘ
legal test cases ⓘ
mass meetings ⓘ
public agitation ⓘ
rent strikes ⓘ
social ostracism ⓘ

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